[or-roots] Was: New computer New: Back-Up

[Chris Havnar]

Bill,

Good point about making a back - up.  And perhaps a CD back-up.  

Also think about a back-up place outside your house, fire, flood, mud,
earthquake, etc.

Personally, my brother-in-law, out of state, gets a CD update on a regular
basis, or whenever I've done major additions. 

At the price of a CD, postage and the cardboard mailer, it is incrediably
cheap insurance ......  Right now if I lost everything on my computer, I
would only have to get the CD back and do the last two months of inputs
(minimal and I haven't yet filed thosed 6 pieces of paper)

Chris

At 07:45 PM 12/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Jacqueline wrote:
>> 
>> Good evening wise ones.....
>
>Ho, ho, ho ...  !
>
>Always a wise one in the group   :)
>
>just don't try to update and transfer at the same time. Do it as two
>separate things, and make a database backup first! or two! preferably to
>a CD, and then test it to make sure the backup (and your procedure) is
>good (ie, restore to a new, temporary, database from the backup).
>
>Say your prayers, cross your fingers, throw salt over your left
>shoulder, and wink at a full moon looking over your right shoulder ...
>
>should go smooth as glass.
>
>PS: Can you just move your old hard drive to the new computer? a New
>'puter should have room for more than one hard drive.  Maybe your
>electronics dealer could help you with this?
>
>Happy Holidays!
>
>Bill Strickland
>