Mike, Keeping a backup of important files is great, but a good full backup is great for restoring in the minium amount of time.. XP Restore is one way, I use IBM/Lenovo's Rescue and Recovery, comes free with their systems. It's much like Acronis, will boot when the OS won't and you can restore individual files or just the OS files including the registry..
I recently had a hard drive fail in one of Lenovo desktops, replaced the drive, restored from network source, and back up in less than an hour.. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ At 09:08 PM 12/18/2007, Mike Naruta wrote: >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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
