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[OldWelshGuy]

Actually, I was passed on the details of a UK company who will carry out automated backups on a nightly basis, and will store 4GB of data for £120 a year.

[mcanerin]

I discovered that an interesting side effect to buying a DVD burner was that I was actually interested in doing backups again....

Ian

[OldWelshGuy]

Hey I just reead my post back and I sound like one of them there forum spammers 'back up your data for £120 a year' lol I am not honestly :halo: I was just given the details, and thought it is a good idea haviing off site databack up.

I am going to get one of them DVD burners soon, there was one on sale from E-buyer last week £70 in tax, and I forgot to order it

[qwerty]

The problem with DVD burners is that recordable DVD's still cost a fortune (I think). Of course, half of my day has now been spent zipping up my music files into archives that are small enough to fit onto a single CD.

Isn't there some setting in WinZip that lets you split up a zip file into a bunch of smaller files of a certain size? That would make this project go much faster.

[csjavi]

My lazy method of taking backups:
3 hard drives
hd1 Windows & installed software
hd2 & hd3 documents and downloaded stuff (software, service packs etc.). Everything is on both disks.

Protects against hd failure. I probably should burn my important documents to a cd.

Installing Windows is a lot quicker now than it used to be.

[mcanerin]

WinZip that lets you split up a zip file

Yep. I tend to use WinRAR instead, but the ability to set archive sizes has been around forever - since people needed to put stuff on floppies, anyway

It should be in the documentation.

DVD-R's cost about $2 USD now, so they are pretty reasonable. I buy them in spindles of 25-100 and save a fair amount of money that way.

I also use it to burn my kids DVD's onto dvd-r, then let them play the dvd-rs. Once the DVD-R gets all scratched and destroyed, you make another from the original

Ian

[McFox]

On a timely note, Microsoft have released a CD which contains all of the available Windows Updates for different versions

Order the Windows Security Update CD

I would think this is a very useful addition to the CD collection, particularly as M$ have decided to stop providing support for the older OS's.

Available in the US, Canada and Internationally.

McF

[torka]

Cool, and it's totally free, too. I just ordered one. Thanks for the link, McFox!

--Torka

[McFox]

Cool, and it's totally free, too. I just ordered one. Thanks for the link, McFox!

No problem Torka

Update on current binary situation:


McF