Yep, been there. Both with big drives at work and home. Outlook is not friendly for backups. That helped me switch to Mozilla Thunderbird. Now it's a plain folder that I can put on CD.
Rather than trying to do the whole drive for each backup, I periodically make CDs and DVDs with my critical files. By making them plain files, I don't have to worry about backup software (I got burned with Microsoft Backup version differences more than once.) I also have PCs with two hard drives in them and copy files between drives for a quick backup; but that doesn't protect me from a virus. My archival files I recopy maybe once a year. CDs do degrade. Don't forget to test your backups and store them off site. Fire and theft happen. Mike - AA8K Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems) wrote: > I can personally vouch for the need to back up! Yesterday, I heard my > laptop disk suddenly start going, "kirchunk, kirchunk, kirchunk,...." The > disk activity light stayed on continuously and when I did the CTRL/ALT/DEL > it went blue screen. My heart sank. I did a hard shutdown and tried to > reboot. I goes to the point where it tries to access the disk and then it > goes, "kirchunk, kirchunk, kirchunk,...." > > Well, I have over 15 years of address book and email records stored in > Outlook with no backup. I dropped it off at a disk recovery company here in > Austin today. They say the cost will range from $400 to $1,900 depending on > the damage. > > I knew better but I kept promising myself I would look into online backup > over the holidays. I think Murphy was listening to my promise. :>( > > Take heed all, lest yours crashes too. > > 73 and Merry Christmas to all, > Gerald > President > FlexRadio Systems > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
