I find the easiest (therefore most likely to be done) backup is to run
GOBACK on my system and to backup with Norton Ghost frequently and to write
that backup to CD every so often.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:53 AM
> To: 'writelog@contesting.com'
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Of RAID, Drives, warranties, and reliability...
> (long)
>
>
> I just want to add my 2 cents about warrenties.
>
> No drive manufacturer is going to warrenty your DATA, only the
> drive hardware
> itself. It's up to YOU to have a copy of your critical data
> somewhere else in
> case the drive ever fails.
>
> I have been very lucky -- I have not lost a drive myself, but I
> tend to upgrade
> every two-three years. In the shack, I use Iomega Automatic
> Backup to save
> copies of my logbook to a ZIP disk every time a file changes. In the home
> office, I do a nightly automated backup to an identical hard
> drive. All of
> this started, incidentally, in the last year or so. I had been
> living on the
> edge up until now.
>
> There's a line from the movie "Tommy Boy" about guarantees that I
> won't repeat
> here. If you've see the movie, you know what I'm talking about.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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