[or-roots] Test - Backing Up

Tue Feb 2 22:46:43 PST 2010

How about being paranoid, once upon a time I used to work for an office in the USAF that published the weekly flying schedules for the SR71, U2, T38 and KC135 aircrafts.   This was in the days of 5 inch floppy disks.   Well every Friday at noon I would always back up this schedule.   A printed copy was produced every Friday afternoon and literally the whole based depended on this schedule. 

Well a couple of months after I got transferred to another office and was walking back through my old office.   My replacement had not bothered to continue the practice of backing up the flying schedule and you guess it.   The folks from the base IT department were there attempting to find the lost data.   In the end they had to rebuilt the complete scheduled from the ground up.   It took the whole weekend and many hours of extra work. 

The moral to this story is to always back up your data.   When you update your computer and or software always keep the previous versions on another computer and make copies for you new computer to use.   And only when you are really comfortable with the new computer and or software I might then entertain the thought of migrating to the newer versions. 

Eugene 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: LinLouVan at aol.com 
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us 
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 10:19:51 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Test - Backing Up 

What a great idea Eugene! And people tease me about being organized! 
Linda VanOrden 

In a message dated 2/2/2010 10:16:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, eugenemelvin.roots at comcast.net writes: 

One of the things I enjoy about reading emails on this list and others related list I subscribed to is the fact that I am always learning something new. 

And I know we have all heard about backing up our data.   But I do not believe I have heard anyone suggest backing up web sites that are important to you. 

Since I have four computers, two for home use and two for travel including researching I am a firm believer in the use of portable hard drives.   I have six of them.   Two in a safe deposit box at all times.   And I rotate them at least once a month. 

So If I find a web site on this computer that I want to revisit I save it here and then part of my monthly or pre travel check list it to back everything up on a least two portable hard drives and secure one hard drive and take another one with me when I travel. 

Below are the steps I take to access the folder containing the web sites important to me.   I then copy and paste the complete contents of this folder to a new folder on my portable hard drive. 

I hope this helps. 

Eugene Melvin 

C:\ 

C:\Documents and Settings 

C:\Documents and Settings\user 

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Favorites 

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Favorites\FAMILY RESEARCH
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