Hi Steve,
Yes, I understand what you do, I do something on a similar line as you do.
Actually I have experienced not being able to read as I explained.
Regards,
Norm
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From: "Steve Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>;
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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:02 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] STANDARD LEGACY SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD
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.
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