Re: Need advice re crash protection

You can use imaging software, eg Ghost, Acronis to create either a complete
image of your installation, or simply image data files.
Or many external disks come with backup software, then backup data.
There is rarely any point in backing up Programs as you cannot reinstall
them without recourse to their installation cd's

"forceten32" <forcex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a small business and use a notebook constantly. I also have a
desktop but I use it very little (I'm hndicapped and it's somewhat
difficult
to access.) Anyway, I was fooling myself that the desktop was a backtop
but it's way data-outdated now. And it suddenly occurred to me that if
my
laptop crashes, I'm in trouble.

I have around 15G total data, including programs, on the laptop. Am I
right
in supposing an external drive would do the trick? And what should I back
up? All bytes on the current hard drive i.e. a mirror of the entire
drive?
Is that practical?

Is there a way, I can program to plug in the external drive every so often
and it will automatically update what is changed?

Or do I just move file by file like copying to a floppy?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Fred





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