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| 753958 | 2009-03-08 04:06:00 | One other thing to back up (if you want to) is your Outlook Express account info. IIRC it's in Tools>Accounts>Export. | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 753959 | 2009-03-08 06:14:00 | If your dvd writer supports it, you could get one of these: www.dse.co.nz Yeah, very nice but.....PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 753960 | 2009-03-08 06:16:00 | One other thing to back up (if you want to) is your Outlook Express account info. IIRC it's in Tools>Accounts>Export. All done & dusted. 10.7GB to 102 MB. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 753961 | 2009-03-08 06:22:00 | My Backup recovery strategy these days is an Image of C drive to start with. I have two Images. One with a basic install and all the WinXP patches, and one once all Apps etc are installed. C Drive is only a 250Gb ES drive and only has Win XP, & Programs on it. D Drive has Data and Work E has the C's Image and a daily backup of all of D Drive. I also 4 other drives which is normally Digital Video for me and Clients. F, G gets backed up to H, I. I can restore C in a few minutes if Windows or the HDD goes belly up. I have lost client data in the past and it is days of work re-creating it which I hopefully never have to do again. I use Mainly Seagate ES Hard Drives. Using TrueImage for the Imaging and SyncBackSE for the Drive backups. Only thing on C I like to keep is outlook.pst from Outlook. That is backed up to D daily which in turn gets backed up also. It works for me. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 753962 | 2009-03-08 06:54:00 | My Backup recovery strategy these days is an Image of C drive to start with. I have two Images. One with a basic install and all the WinXP patches, and one once all Apps etc are installed. C Drive is only a 250Gb ES drive and only has Win XP, & Programs on it. D Drive has Data and Work E has the C's Image and a daily backup of all of D Drive. I also 4 other drives which is normally Digital Video for me and Clients. F, G gets backed up to H, I. I can restore C in a few minutes if Windows or the HDD goes belly up. I have lost client data in the past and it is days of work re-creating it which I hopefully never have to do again. I use Mainly Seagate ES Hard Drives. Using TrueImage for the Imaging and SyncBackSE for the Drive backups. Only thing on C I like to keep is outlook.pst from Outlook. That is backed up to D daily which in turn gets backed up also. It works for me. Wish I would afford that many drives:( I'd use your method if I had a few more drives |
Blam (54) | ||
| 753963 | 2009-03-08 22:54:00 | So, I have 7 backup folders in My Documents ready to burn to DVD. BackDocs1 is 2.89GB. When I ask it to copy, I am told that it will take 11 hours!!! Is that right? The data is not compressed. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 753964 | 2009-03-08 23:25:00 | It won't, at first the extimate is large, but it will start to shrink. Shouldn't take more than 30mins, use TeraCopy, it will speed copying up greatly Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 753965 | 2009-03-08 23:28:00 | What DVD writing program are you using - if its the inbuilt windows one thats rubbish and often fails. you would be advised to use a third party Program, plenty of free ones about, then simply burn the data to DVD. Dont try to rush and get them burnt FAST - thats when corruption occurs. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 753966 | 2009-03-08 23:38:00 | BurnAwareFree is good for novices, ImgBurn is good also | Blam (54) | ||
| 753967 | 2009-03-09 00:25:00 | So, I have 7 backup folders in My Documents ready to burn to DVD. BackDocs1 is 2.89GB. When I ask it to copy, I am told that it will take 11 hours!!! Is that right? The data is not compressed. PJ Use Nero, Select DVD>burn as a data disc. There will be a tab on the left of the program window that you need to select and it will show more options, This is where you select the write speed. Fools for hiding the most important option. |
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