"MaryL" > wrote in message
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> On 12/1/2015 4:11 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>
>>> That's why you are supposed to do a backup once in a while
>>
>> Yers ... I know it. Remembering to do it is another matter ...
>>
>
> I am rather obsessive about backups. It only takes a few seconds, so I
> save any file I am working on every few minutes; and I do a complete
> backup of my files every few days (or every day if I have spent a great
> deal of time working on something important). Actually, I don't use a
> true backup program. Instead, I make copies of everything. That makes it
> easy to use copy-and-paste to replace anything that might have been lost.
> I also believe in redundancy, so I make multiple copies--I alternate
> external hard disks every few times. I tell friends that "my life" is on
> the computer, so I even have one disk that I store in my safe deposit box.
> I only do that a couple of times a year, but it does mean that I would not
> lose everything if something were to happen to my house. When I was
> working, I kept that copy in my office, but now that I am retired I keep
> it in the safe deposit box. I have friends who called me for help when
> their computer crashed. They still haven't learned, but at least they
> have the copy I made for them when we set up their new computer.
>

Lucky friends)


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