Now, there is a difference between how often you intend to backup and the actual backups done.

Same here, I intend to take a backup once a month, and it is borderline interval, but better than nothing. But reality makes the time lapse between backups come to practically no backups.

Be careful if you backup to external disks. It seems that external drives are more fragile than one would expect. I was using part of a second drive in its own partition. Unfortunately this is is only feasible for small backups. And since I hardly perform them, it is always a surprise when I find out that the External disk is no longer working. 

I have just bought a 1TB Idisk, and so far, it works great.

CarmenK

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Hi Carmen,

I make an xcopy copy (meaning: just files copied, no backup software involved - and I do it from DOS) from time to time. That way, in case aof a reunstall, I can just put data back.

Kind regards

Hans

Everyone, sorry not to have replied earlier, but I did not get the email notifications.

Scott, as to backups, sometimes it takes time to get settings back to what they were. I try to backup a few files and my email. I also take backups of my OSs, but not as often as I should.

CarmenK

The most I have ever backed up my computers has been twice a day in the early Windows installations. We take it for granted, but at around Windows 3 time, when Windows and applications were more often down than up. It was usual to hear that the computers were down, and to call later.

CarmenK

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