Re: Backups

Hello,

That is one way to do it. I would recommend to format your external drive as
NTFS to go around the 4GB limit.

Other ways are as you mentioned - imaging and burning to CDs.

Most people I know are using your method - copying the My Documents contents
to an external drive.

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<BlueBrooke> wrote in message
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Can someone tell me how to efficiently back up two 80GB hard drives?

When I did "serious business" with my computer, I had a tape backup
that I ran every night. This was, of course, over ten years ago and
now I just periodically burn things that are important to me on CDs.
I've never been able to use the backup utility included with Windows
because it won't back up to CDs.

Since I'm having so much trouble with my computer lately, I bought an
external 160GB hard drive last night, thinking I'd just back
everything up to that overnight, and do a clean install today.

I woke up this morning to discover that the largest file allowed to a
FAT 32 drive is 4MB -- I'm sure that I knew that at some point years
ago, but didn't realize it last night. Reviewing all the
possibilities I do have, I don't see a valid option for a full
"backup."

Do people not do "backups" anymore -- but just call it that? Are they
mirroring? People talk about backups -- but realistically and
efficiently, how is it done?

Right now, I'm just copying everything to the new hard drive -- is it
as simple as that?

TIA



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