Re: Sequence/Strategy For Building XP System?

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Per Isaac Hunt:
I should have pointed out that I use synctoy to copy my work/email at the
end of every day to a series of usb flash drives.
The disk I use for backup...

I think I have my bases pretty much covered.

The plural flash drive(s) is good.

But if you have only a single disc for those images, you're exposed to a rogue
USB2 card. Happened to me once. Fried two or three drives before it dawned
on me that the card was bad.

What're the chances of an internal driver failure coinciding with that scenario?
Dunno, but it's got to be slim.... my problem came at a time when I was foolish
enough tb keeping my regular data on an external drive too.... same card....

Now I keep at least one backup disc offsite - usually at my desk at some
client's place - where I just can't get to it quickly....in hopes that I'll
remember to dupe it onto another PC before plugging it in to my own PC...

To me, the *real* answer for data is to FTP it to some commercial site - as well
as having my own discs. Haven't even gotten to first base on that one yet bc
my bandwidth won't support it. Tried something from WinZip called "Carbon"
that did just that and it looked encouraging... just took too long (as in days
upon days...) on my wimpy little connection.
--
PeteCresswell
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