Mike, Please tell me how you do this? Is the 40 gb hard drive an external firewire hard drive attached to a computer on the network? An external scsi hard drive attached to a computer on your network, or an internal ata (or scsi) hard drive in a computer on your network?
Do you use retrospect? retrospect express? or some other software to do the back up? Do you back up your entire hard drive(s) or just certain files on the hard drives? Are the backups incremental, ie, what is backed up today is just the files that have been changed since yesterday or do you do a complete backup every day? I am sure there are questions I haven't asked yet, so if you have answers to those questions, please share them. Thanks. Harry on 09/20/2001 5:14 PM, Mikegfct at aol.com at Mikegfct at aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 9/19/01 10:57:22 PM, harryjb at bellsouth.net writes: > >> My friend, unfortunately, was not as conscientious about making backups >> as >> you are. Ergo, he doesn't have a backup. > > Sorry to hear that. I find that the $250 invested in a 40 GB hard drive which > backs up all other drives every night has paid for itself many times over. > > I have a friend, who said (knowing that I was a certified Macintosh > technician), why do you do that, you can probably fix any corruption and > recover files. I told him my credo, "It is far better to have a current > backup than to be cleaver" > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 25. > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. > Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 25. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>.
