Re: stolen laptops..and backups

2007-05-03 Thread Paul Kitchener
Rosemary Horton wrote: What's the best method/ hardware/ software for easy backups. Hi Rosemary For an easy backup you could use gmail or similar for low security (or other) stuff like address books and bookmarks etc. For comprehensive protection though I prefer mirroring or duplicating

Re: stolen laptops..and backups

2007-05-02 Thread James / Hans Kunz
from my experience the best way to backup is get "silverkeeper" or similar backup app, get a harddisk that has the same size as your internal one & formatt it with hfs+, do a ! bootable! backup so all (incl hidden) files are copied to the new drive, afterwards your may do the backup on a

Re: stolen laptops...and backups

2007-05-02 Thread David Moyle
Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shay Telfer Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2007 1:48 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: stolen laptops...and backups >My husband and I both had out laptops stolen...again > >His a White 13" macbook (SN 4H6891CUU9B) only 4 months old (replac

Re: stolen laptops...and backups

2007-05-02 Thread Shay Telfer
My husband and I both had out laptops stolen...again His a White 13" macbook (SN 4H6891CUU9B) only 4 months old (replaced after the last robbery), mine an older powerbook Metal 15" (SN W88169C2RG4) that was stolen and returned, had a brand new hard drive etc So if you see them... Report th

stolen laptops..and backups

2007-05-02 Thread Rosemary Horton
My husband and I both had out laptops stolen...again His a White 13" macbook (SN 4H6891CUU9B) only 4 months old (replaced after the last robbery), mine an older powerbook Metal 15" (SN W88169C2RG4) that was stolen and returned, had a brand new hard drive etc So if you see them... Had the

stolen laptops

2006-12-18 Thread Rosemary Horton
Last Sunday both my husband and I had out laptops stolen form our house (with a whole lot of other stuff) My powerbook was unaccountably returned this Saturday. (They only took one set of cords..maybe that's why... The note said they were sorry but evidently not sorry enough to give eve

Stolen Laptops

2003-03-18 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi All, Just had a couple of laptops stolen. Whoever took them wasn't very bright as they took a $500 laptop, yet left a $1000 iPod. The machines were; PowerBook G4 500 - sn# QT10938MJF8 This laptop had OSX on it, so when they turn it on, they will be prompted to insert a password. If anyone