Hi, Just mentioned that as a possibility while discussing the storage problem with another list member off list. All this business of burning multiple copies of DVDs and filing them is something that would be difficult for me to do. I'm disorganized and i procrastinate. I'd most likely end up with a big pile of plastic disks waiting to be organized.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > The most cost-efficient and reliable backup storage at present is a > pair external FireWire/USB 2.0 drives. Buy two, set them up > identically. When you plug in one to save stuff to it, after > disconnecting it plug in the other and do the same thing. That way > you always have two copies of every file. The likelihood that both > drives would go bad simultaneously is infinitesimally small, > particularly if they're never plugged into the computer at the same > time. Once you have your data backed up this way, you can remove all > but the current work files from your primary work drive.
