You are incorrect. In my own case, my tax records for years are kept in My Documents, and are imaged along with my whole C partition. The most paranoid only need two drives - swap them every month, and keep one off the premises. These drives are cheap these days, so I agree nobody should only have one backup drive.
Optical media is still good for archiving the big stuff, but until I can fit my C drive on one disk again, hard drives are just lots _easier_. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:33 PM, gerald <ger...@slawecki.com> wrote: > a lot of people back up to a single external drive. i think this not a good > idea. i have not had good luck with external drive reliability. if > possible, back up to cd's or dvd's and grandfather them. for my company, we > did a backup every day just before closing. used append feature. dated each > cd or dvd. stacked them back on the spindle as they filled. > > last year the state of Texas sent me a love note for not paying sales tax(my > company is in MD) for the past 7 or 8 years for $110,000 plus about another > 100k in penalties. went back to 1999. i then got a bill from texas for > another 110k for not paying franchise fees. oh, and 100k in penalties. by > the time it was all said and done, texas wanted half a mil from me. > > i dug out the spindles, created year end data, customer lists, etc for > 1999-2007. hired a couple texas lawyers, and went about defending self. > could not have done it without the backups. > > could not do it if i backed up external. data would be long gone. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
