Thanks, I don't have a 2nd internal hard drive. Is that important to have, even if you have an External drive? By offload, do you mean copy and then delete on the original HD? How often do you do backups?
Randall On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I image c: daily to my internal second hard drive. Monthly it makes a > full independent image to that drive also, then I connect my external > drive and offload it. I alternate 2 drives monthly, one kept off site. > > I use backups mostly to retrieve earlier file versions. i.e., I > accidentally rename a project template file. Easy to go into a > previous backup and restore the template. I've used images to restore > Windows after malware or file corruption. > > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ranbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This probably seems a stupid question (though I don't believe there are > > really any stupid questions except those you already know the answer to), > > but if you are regularly backing up to an external hard drive (as I've > now > > started to do, scheduled for automatic daily back up) is it still > important > > to do regular back ups on the computer itself, or is it less important to > do > > this very often or regularly? Maybe what I'm really asking is what does > the > > back up on the computer actually do and what and how does it prevent > nasty > > things from happening? > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
