RE: Backup

[Michael Norman <michael ! norman () nyu ! edu>]

At 11/29/2005 04:52 PM -0600, K. A. Wilkerson (Kent)
wrote:
> Be
> careful!!! I had a bad experience w. the program and am somewhat
> paranoid. After running the programming once some of my very important
> research folders w. tons of data in them disappeared completely!!! 
> Not sure why. So, --be sure that you have your data in another format.
> (On another drive, tape, etc.) I  in fact did so it was not a
> disaster.

Thanks, Kent. So far no problems. I've kept my two zip drives and use
them as spot backup drives, which is to say I back-up to them every
200-300 words or so. At night I back up a third time to a 256 flash
drive, and once a week I backup several folders containing all vital data
to a 1GB flash drive. I use Second Copy for the nightly and weekly
backups and I use the compare function of ExplorerPlus to double check
the hard drive contents against the back-up drives. This is...excessive?
Obsessive? Probably. But then writing is an obsessive act too, no?

Michael Norman