Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/1/2012 12:34 PM, Clark Morris wrote: [snip] Some comments that have mainframe relevance or at least association. I like using Acronis which has saved me on a couple of occasions. I can take the full disk backup and restore individual files from it. I have done both full disk and file re

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-02-01 Thread Clark Morris
On 21 Jan 2012 02:43:39 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Radoslaw wrote: >W dniu 2012-01-21 03:13, Clark Morris pisze: >[...] > >> Both my wife and I are adding family pictures so that is part of the >> reason for the capacity. In response to Radoslaw, I am getting the >> second drive so that I ca

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-21 03:13, Clark Morris pisze: [...] Both my wife and I are adding family pictures so that is part of the reason for the capacity. In response to Radoslaw, I am getting the second drive so that I can rotate the drives between my home and that of another family member 160 kilometer

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-20 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 Jan 2012 10:32:32 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In <7f9jh753g211qjd3n3it85al7bd8buv...@4ax.com>, on 01/20/2012 > at 01:40 PM, Clark Morris said: > >>I have an external 2 terabyte hard drive that I use as a back up >>device by plugging it into each of the two computers I have

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-20 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-20 18:40, Clark Morris pisze: I have an external 2 terabyte hard drive that I use as a back up device by plugging it into each of the two computers I have and then returning it to a fire safe. I am planning to get a second drive so I can rotate the backups off-site and was wonderi

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-20 Thread Rick Fochtman
On 1/20/2012 11:40 AM, Clark Morris wrote: I have an external 2 terabyte hard drive that I use as a back up device by plugging it into each of the two computers I have and then returning it to a fire safe. I am planning to get a second drive so I can rotate the backups off-site and was wondering

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <7f9jh753g211qjd3n3it85al7bd8buv...@4ax.com>, on 01/20/2012 at 01:40 PM, Clark Morris said: >I have an external 2 terabyte hard drive that I use as a back up >device by plugging it into each of the two computers I have and then >returning it to a fire safe. I am planning to get a second dr

OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-20 Thread Clark Morris
I have an external 2 terabyte hard drive that I use as a back up device by plugging it into each of the two computers I have and then returning it to a fire safe. I am planning to get a second drive so I can rotate the backups off-site and was wondering if the portable hard drives are worth the ad