Re: Maxtor external hard drive no longer recognized by My Computer

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All Things Mopar wrote:

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Thanks for your input Jerry.


glad it was of use to you, Denise.

Someone else here mentioned

the triple whammy also. I know I have to do something
(it's the reason for the purchase of the additional drive)
but I was so busy trying to crank out the work that I let backing it up go, always thinking that I'd do it properly
when I had the chance.


Sadly, most of us "old hands" at computing all learned the same "school of hard knocks" way of backing up - right /after/ we had a disaster (I've been doing this one way or another for 40 years). I remember in my early mainframe programming days in the mid-1970s I asked a more experienced programmer how often I should save - and to a different name. He said "how many minutes/hours/days of your work can you afford to lose? whatever the answer, back up more often than that!" Good advice.

I have Ghost configured to perform an incremental image backup of my drive hourly to my file server, which runs RAID 5. Once a week I backup the file server to tape, and take the tapes to my cottage.

If my PC fails, I loose no more than an hour's work. If my house burns down, I loose no more than a week's work.

Sunny
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