I have an 80gb LaCie hard drive which I use for back up. LaCie has FREE backup software, "SilverKeeper." With SilverKeeper you can schedule your backups at startup or shut down or at a specific time during the day.
I've set my computer to shut down at midnight and restart at 6:15 a.m. I've scheduled Silverkeeper to back up at 6:30 a.m. By the time I check email the computer is on, ready to go the hard drive has been backed up. LaCie's software will work with other hard drives. I've been told you can't use the scheduling function with another companies hard drive, but I have not found this to be true. I tested it on one of my internal hard drive partions and it worked fine. Harry Sunday, November 6, 20057:10 AMStuart Ungarteamungar at yahoo.com >I am wondering what the best way to back up my system >is. I have a mac mini and have about 10,000 photos >and some iTunes songs I would want backed up. For >some reason, my DVD burner that is built in is not >working for backing up the data. Any thoughts about >an external hard drive (which ones are good and at >what price)? Or, can I buy one of those cool new 5th >gen iPods to use as back up??? Or, do they compress >the files further? > >Thoughts, experience appreciated! > >Stuart > >PS- THe storm last night made me think about this as >more of an urgent matter. No computer problems, but >you never know when that will happen! > >Louisville At-home Dads (L.A.D.s) >Bringing together stay-at-home fathers, their children and their families. >502-426-5376 >LouisvilleLADS-owner at yahoogroups.com > > > >__________________________________ >Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >| The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >| List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
