[vip_students] Re: A word about backups!
- From: "Gerry Kerr" <gerrykerr@xxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:19:42 +0100
Thanks Paul, Joe and all.
All the best.
Gerry
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[mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul J. Traynor
(NCBI)
Sent: 13 April 2010 08:49
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: A word about backups!
Hi Gerry,
"Can anyone recommend the best way to backup?"
I suppose it would be fair to say that there is no one over-all solution as
to what kind of backup plan you use Gerry. Anything that can hold materials
which are important to you will be fine as long as those items such as
memory sticks, blank CD/DVD's, external or internal hard drives are
themselves in good shape and not suffered from any mis-treatment
before-hand. Just think about how much stuff you have which needs to be
backed up. Some people have a lot when you take music, videos and general
files into account while others just have a small collection of word
documents. For a large amount of stuff, get a good external hard drive, for
small use and ease of portability, get a good size pen drive, I would
suggest nothing less than 8 gigabytes upwards.
How you perform the backup is also down to personal taste. If the items to
be backed up are constantly being added to or changed in some manner then
you should download and install a good backup software package. I use one
called second copy. Its not free but I think its worth it for my stuff.
If you have just a small amount of documents which don't change too often
then a simple routine of copying and pasting the files say once a week onto
the pen drive will be sufficient.
Paul.
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