Backup, made easy!!!!

Dan Murphy

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How many times have we been reminded to BACKUP our computers? How many times have we been told, it's not IF, but WHEN you will have a computer/drive failure or hiccup?

Over the years, I can recall using a program for floppy disk backup, called Fastback. I recall using ZIP disks, a tape drive, CD backups, then Norton's Ghost and most recently, Drive Image, for DVD backup.

The biggest problems I found, as well as most people I think, is, number one, remembering to do the backup, two, doing it consistently, and third, just taking the time to do it. We do it once, maybe twice, then, like so many things in our busy lives, we 'will do it tomorrow'.

Well, I think I may have found the solution, and recommend you maybe look at using it too, at least looking into it. As it is WHEN, not IF. :eek:

I heard about the Maxtor One Touch on a PC Q&A talk radio show I listen to on Saturday nights on WGN Radio, David Lawrence's, Geek Speak.

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Simple as can be. The one I purchased is the 120 Gig (there are larger). It was on sale at the time for $139 at Best Buy. My PC is also a 120 G, with about 20 G used. It is about the size of a cable modem, or for those who can recall some of the 'old days', it looks like a Hayes Smartmodem. It is USB (Firewire also available). You load the software drivers with an install CD once, plug it in, hook up the USB cable, push the button. Follow the steps on the screen. It backs up your WHOLE drive. You can have it back it up as an essentially non usable backup, for disaster recovery (the way I do it) or you can have it duplicate it, so it is a usable duplicate of your drive. I prefer just the backup.

Now, here is the neat part, where most backup ambitions fail and end. Subsequent backups. You set your schedule, the frequency, the time. I have mine backup, unattended, at 3 AM, every night. I have used this about 2 weeks now, I look every morning, and there it is, 3 AM backup. It will compare your PC to the backup, add anything new, delete anything that was deleted, replace any files that are changed. I am only a day away from current, and I do nothing. If I had a crash, maybe the drive is trashed. I get a new drive and do a total restore, no loss of data. And it can do it every day, or whatever schedule you wish.

I like it, just an FYI to share with the DIS family.

Hope everyone has a nice holiday weekend, drive safely, good wishes to all those in the southeast, Florida and elsewhere.
 
Dan, only 20 gig? And I bet that 18 of those gig are Disney pictures. :)

Thanks for the headup! I am so surprised that there are so many people out there that do not do backups at all. And more than a few have had hundreds if not thousands of digital pictures.
 
Thanks, Dan!! I will have to let John know about this! :)
 
I really need to get one of those, seeing as how my 96 gig hard drive gets annoying to back up on DVD when about 70 gigs of it is full :eek:
 

Originally posted by jfulcer
Dan, only 20 gig? And I bet that 18 of those gig are Disney pictures. :).....
LOL, Jeff. Okay, I just looked, about 28 Gig. I must have added a few pictures. :teeth: And Jo, they do go up to 300 G. It is so simple.
 
:scared1: :confused: LOL! The last time I did a backup at all was yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeears ago at work when it was SIMPLE! You put the floppy in, some simple thing to back up, change disk when one was full. Ta da! I have NO clue how to backup anything these days! Ugh! :earseek: :crazy:

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...I guess it's back to Computers 101 for me! :scared1:
 
I still have to back up my whole system as Internet Explorer
was corrupted. We're using our laptop. DH and I are both
afraid to backup-lol! We're too dumb to know if our backup
has worked and the information captured so it's safe to reinstall
everything.
Should we hire someone?aghhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
What a great thing! Thanks for the heads-up Dan. I will certainly look into these. :teeth:
 
My dad's been looking into that same product, both for his computers and for when I get a computer for college. Very glad to see a good report on it.
 
Okey Dan convinced go out buy the drive.
 












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