Re: .pst approaching 700 Mb
- From: Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:08:11 -0500
The external drive is a good choice if you don't want to burn optical media. But when I see the word(s) "backup" in a request, I tend to think of permanent or semi-permanent backup, not simply a copy on a hard drive (even if it's a 2nd hard drive).
No version of Roxio has systematically done what you experienced on a large scale (I was a beta tester for what was then Corel CD Creator back in 1995, through about 2003 as it went through Corel, Adaptec, Roxio and now Sonic).
Software products can encounter unexpected and unforseen conflicts with either other software, with specific system hardware configurations and with unusual configurations. It happens (and, sometimes, the problem is defective hardware, or ANOTHER installed software product that is buggy, corrupt or damaged). You just can't (or shouldn't, anyway) "ban a software vendor for life" just because you happened to have a single "incident". Versions 5, 6 and 7 of Adaptec/Roxio have been pretty good. However, with both Roxio and Nero, you ***MUST*** apply the online updates. More so than with almost any other class of software product, it's important to keep these products updated.
baltobernie wrote:
Hi Barry,
Thanks for your input.
I will never, ever buy another Roxio product, after it crashed and burned a previous PC during installation. I had to reformat the hard drive and start over. Cost me two days.
The external drive is beginning to look like the easiest choice ...
Bernie
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43762603.6070707@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The obvious solution here is to get a DVD burner .... the best, name-brand ones are down to $60's, and will burn all formats including all variants of + and -, single and dual layer. My recommendation is the Pioneer 110 series (there are a number of different drives in this series, so know what you are getting). Two comments:
-DO NOT use "RW" media of any time. It has poor long-term stability and data loss is common
-Don't use dual layer media unless you really have to. So far I've had pretty good luck with the few times I've used it, but I don't consider it's long-term reliability proven yet. If yo do use it, stick with Verbatim brand (the only DL media approved by several drive makers) and a 2.4X recording speed. DL media is expensive (was $6 per disc, but I've seen it for $2/disc more recently), but being able to get 9 gigs on a single media does come in handy at times.
Also, Roxio (Easy CD Creator / Easy Media Creator) will automatically "span" data across multiple CDs if a layout won't fit on a single CD. I don't like the way that it does it, it's not a clean solution, but it will work.
Another option, you could use a "Zip" program (Winzip, etc.) to compress the PST file prior to burning.
Don't EVER keep things in the "deleted items" folder that you want to save. Create a file structure for filing things if you want to use Outlook for that purpose. My own PST file is nearly 600MB and I have tens of thousands of messages in hundreds of folders. Note that on many if not most computers, the "Deleted Items" folder is automatically emptied and lost forever every time you exit Outlook (this is a configuration option that can be turned on or off).
baltobernie wrote:
My next Outlook 2002 backup will not fit on one CD.
1. Will Windows tell me that all data will not fit on one CD, and prompt me to insert another disc when the first is full?
2. ... or is there some procedure to (permanently) relocate Deleted Items, for example, to another folder, and backup this data separately. The ability to restore in the event of catastrophic computer failure is paramount.
Bernie
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