Howard R. Katz wrote:
This brings up an interesting question--what do you all prefer for your backups? CD-ROMS (when you have a machine that can do that), external drives? Other media? What about online storage services--are they worth the money?
I have two computers networked, and each has a small backup area for the other. My PB190 also has a slot on each of the others (note the message I just posted to Yersinia). Frequent backups go to the two networked computers; every few weeks I back up onto a couple of CDRoms the critical directories, plus important resources that might give me a bit of heartache to find again on the web. Any software I might lose during an event I would rather reinstall than restore. Everything that I haven't designed and built myself (not more than 20'ish MB) is replaceable from the Web, with the caveat that sometimes links disappear. Link mortality is the only reason for the larger (<1GB) resource backups. I can see uses for the online services, but I have no need for them, myself. I would lose very little in a power outage; if my house burned down, I would lose a lot, but I can't see computer data as a high priority in that circumstance :-).
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