[vip_students] Re: A word about backups!
- From: "noreenmeagher" <noreenmeagher@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:46:05 +0100
Hi Paul,
Judging from the response to this mail you have got us all
thinking(*grin*) Having back up on memory keys just wondering is there
any problem transferringfrom Windows XP to Windows Vista and eventually
to Windows 7?
Noreen
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From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul J. Traynor
(NCBI)
Sent: 09 April 2010 12:23
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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