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The topic of backup is always timely - thanks for sharing this service. I’ll check it out straightaway.
As computer geeks, I'm sure we’ve all gotten that panicked call from a friend or family member who has suffered a hard disk crash. It's never been pretty - and some (if not all) of their data has almost always been lost.
The method we use in our home is to employ automated (scheduled) weekly instances of NTBACKUP (built-in WinXP) to copy down both my wife's and my local C: drive data to a separate D: drive in my machine. Then once-a-month, it wakes up to tell me to mount an external USB hard drive to back both machines up to the external store. Every month, I take this external drive to work and trade it with a friend who lives in antoher part of the city who does the exact same thing with his data.
With all of the irreplaceable financial, genealogical and family photos we store on our machine these days, ANY method that takes the data “off-site” (to a friend’s house, to a safe-deposit box, to an online share like Carbonium) is the only way to be absolutely sure you don’t suffer a stinging loss of critical data and family memories at some point in the future.
Oh yeah – another tip: It’s always safer to back up your entire %userprofile% directory and subdirectories – not just My Documents. Many programs (like Outlook and Outlook Express) store their data in these locations instead of under My Documents, so be sure not to miss key data that may be hiding in non-intuitive locations.
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