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The importance of backups.
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<blockquote data-quote="SteveL54" data-source="post: 525617" data-attributes="member: 17080"><p>Well, it finally happened. the hard drive in my main computer finally went "KABLOOEY" Friday night. </p><p>No warning, no nothing. All the tricks that I learned over the years, and nothing would bring it back. Luckily, I learned years ago - when I was in the computer business - that you can never have enough backups. I do a daily image backup to an external 1 TB, and I also save to a laptop and DVD. Went out and bought a new Seagate 2 TB drive, plugged in the external with the image file, and a few hours I was up and running again, with everything intact. </p><p>So if you don't backup, consider doing it NOW! The 1 TB external only cost $55.00. That's a small price to pay to retrieve over 30,000 photos, plus all my software. Not to mention all of my music files, videos, contacts, everything. It's all back in there, like nothing ever happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveL54, post: 525617, member: 17080"] Well, it finally happened. the hard drive in my main computer finally went "KABLOOEY" Friday night. No warning, no nothing. All the tricks that I learned over the years, and nothing would bring it back. Luckily, I learned years ago - when I was in the computer business - that you can never have enough backups. I do a daily image backup to an external 1 TB, and I also save to a laptop and DVD. Went out and bought a new Seagate 2 TB drive, plugged in the external with the image file, and a few hours I was up and running again, with everything intact. So if you don't backup, consider doing it NOW! The 1 TB external only cost $55.00. That's a small price to pay to retrieve over 30,000 photos, plus all my software. Not to mention all of my music files, videos, contacts, everything. It's all back in there, like nothing ever happened. [/QUOTE]
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