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Nicole
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CD-R or CD-RW? - 9/2/2005 23:25:10
I'm reallly a bit embarrased to be asking what to most would be the dumbest question imaginable, but here goes....
I like to back up all my files, websites, word documents, excel spreadsheets, images etc, roughly about once a week. I have about 250mb worth of these files and was saving them to a CD-R and then tossing the old one out each week when I backed up on a new disk.
I've moved on to CD-RW's now, and was doing the same back-ups as i thought the purpose of CD-RW's was to over-write any old files that were the same and just add the new ones? But it seems that i'm only getting to do these back-ups twice per CD-RW and the third time it says that I'm out of space on the disk, which would indicate to me that it's saving everything once, then it's saving everything once again then there's not enough space to do another back-up on that disk.
I'm not even going to try and keep a record of what files I change each week and just upload them (way too much trouble), so should I go back to CD-R's and just throw them out after each new back-up (or store them somewhere), or am I just missing the point?
I'm not talking about any programs, just files I may or may not create or update.
Help?
Nicole
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From: England (but live in Finland now)
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RE: CD-R or CD-RW? - 9/3/2005 0:48:47
another thing you could do is buy a USB memory stick, leave it plugged in and just drag your files to there or use the 'send to' in the context menu on a folder/file when you right click. 512mb isn't so expensive. the memoery stick might be a bit quicker than the cd...
one thing though to remember if you do use a memory stick is always to use the 'Safely remove hardware' icon in the system tray *before* removing it. 9 times out of 10 you can get away with just pulling out the stick but the tenth time you'll lose/corrupt your data ;)
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Charles W Davis
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RE: CD-R or CD-RW? - 9/17/2005 19:37:05
I simply have two internal hard drives instaled on both mine and my wife's computers. The computers share some folders and the second hard drives. I use Windows XP Pro Backup program. Each month we back up to the second hard drive in the other's computers overwriting the prior backup. Weekly we only back up the changed files.
I back up the "My Documents" folder which contains all downloaded programs, fonts, images, web sites, QuickBooks files for 8 companies, etc.
Three times in the past 3 1/2 years with XP Pro I have had to retrieve a Word document. It worked flawlessly.
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