[vip_students] Re: A word about backups!

hello Paul and others

yes I agree with you Paul by making sure you have a good back up plan. after 
using karens power tools to back up my computer.  I found all my stuff was not 
backed up.  my computer crashed and I lost everything. I then when to reload my 
back up stuff. only to find that my outlook express was not backed up properly. 
it backed up the program but not the emails that I had saved.  there was three 
years of emails gone. all the stuff that I had saved from my e c d l course. 
notes instructions  and short cut keys that Paul had sent me. so beware  and 
back up proper.

regards
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Paul J. Traynor (NCBI)
  To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:22 PM
  Subject: [vip_students] A word about backups!


  Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine who works in the computer 
business. He mentioned to me about a customer he had come in to his store with 
a computer badly neglected and in  a state where it would be hard to do 
anything with it. It was infected with viruses, spyware and malware and needed 
major servicing. Unfortunately he discovered that the hard drive was damaged 
and no useful data could be retrieved from it. He mentioned to me that the 
customer was very annoyed and upset about this as he said he had photos, 
documents and some work he had been preparing  for someone on that disk. My 
friend felt bad for the guy but what I thought was a bit much was that this 
customer almost felt it was the  technician fault his PC had let him down and 
kept on ranting about all he lost. It got me wondering about how many of you 
reading this have a backup plan in operation?. What about those documents, 
photos, music and other items you have on your hard drive?, are they the only 
copies you have of your materials or are you playing it smart and have taken 
steps to backup your stuff onto an external hard drive, USB memory stick, CD, 
DVD etc?. It's no good complaining about all you have lost when the PC goes 
down. It's no use blaming someone who is trying to help and you then turn your  
frustration on them if something can't be retrieved. Take a bit of time now to 
think about your materials. Are they the sort of items that can't be replaced?, 
if so put a backup plan into action and keep those files safe. Backup at least 
once a week and then you can be assured that everything is safe whenever  that 
crash comes, because it's not "if" it comes but "when" it comes!.

  Let us know here on the list some of your ideas so we can share them with 
others.



  Cheers,



  Paul.



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