Dave, thanks.
Thanks for the additional insight. I do two things that offer a bit
of protection. First, I actually open up the copies on the zip disk
to see if they work. But, I may now alternate between two zip disks
containing nothing but ebase backups.
In addition, I back up my entire hard disk once a week rotating two
complete back-ups. So I have a fair degree of extra protection.
>>I have a relatively simple way of backing up. I keep several
>>successive back-ups on a single zip disk. ebase is in a folder by
>>itself. (Running on an iMac.) I simply drag (copy) the entire ebase
>>folder to the zip disk and then add the current date to the folder
>>that shows up there. I also delete the oldest copy. As of now, I
>>keep the last six backups but six is an arbitrary number
>
>John, I agree that it's simple, but I think it's important to also
>recognize the shortcomings of this method. You have really only one
>backup - your zip disk. Disk failure is usually how you lose data,
>and if the zip disk fails, you've lost all the backup copies.
>Additional disks are pretty cheap insurance.
>>
>
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>Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
>tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
>
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