On 27 Jan 2006 at 13:59, LegacySupport wrote: > CD-RW is not recommended for backing up your files. As you've found, a disk > written on a CD-RW drive may not be readable on a different drive. Use a CD-R > disk instead. You can write multiple times to a CD-R, you just can't > overwrite or change what's already on there.
I have found that CR-RW discs are OK for short-term backups. You can't normally WRITE to them on a drive other than the one on which they were formatted, but other drives (and computers) willusually read them. I back up to CD-R once a month or so, but every day I transfer my Legacy (and other) data between my desktop and laptop computers using a flash drive, so there are three recent copies, and the backups made when closing Legacy brings it up to five. Then every 2-3 days I back up the alptop version to CD- RW. That covers against minor disasters like inadvertently deleting something, messing up an import, and even more serious ones like a disk crash. The CD-R backups can cover all the computers being stolen, destroyed by fire etc. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
