Hi Karen,
All through the late nineties and early two thousand's, I had several crashes, and invasive situations, after my web site was first up and running back in late 1997. Many different kinds of crashes, including Outlook Express overload ... and, I had my browser stolen. I don't even know if that is the right terminology. I certainly know from nothing about computers and don't want to know how to build them. But I have a sense of how things should operate. They SHOULD operate.
It was as a result of the likelihood of no consistent life in the computer world that I developed the organizer. Way too much information to reload each and every time, and NO WAY to remember it all. Way far too time-consuming. Just no way. For me it was so sad that each time, I kept losing ALL my information, and spent days and dollars trying to retrieve it all and re-install and re-setup everything, over and over and over again. It completely wore me out.
Fortunately I found the Ghost system, and bought extra matching hardware hard drive cassettes that my tech/builder built into my computer. I lock the cassette into the tray, turn the computer on, it operates in DOS, and hit run. I have more than one backup cassette so I can rotate.
I had a real scare initially when, after a problem, one of the (new) cassettes, having been used as a back-up drive - when I tried to use it - HAD NO INFORMATION ON IT! Panic attack big time. That's when I knew I had to have more than one cassette. (Life tells us we have to have duplicates, triplicates and sometimes quadruplicates of EVERYTHING in this business if we are to remain operational at the flick of a switch.) Upon further investigation, my tech discovered "a missing tiny piece of product out of place," walked me through it, on the phone, "flipping a switch" and suddenly all was well. The tiniest little manipulator - I never would have guessed - controlled the whole application. My guess is that eyeglasses tools must be used to create these things. But the sad thing is that if I had had only one cassette, once again I would have lost everything. Just can't deal with that thought.
I had tried several other methods but outgrew them as time passed, but this seems to be the least conspicuous and easiest to operate. It is old now by computer standards, and there is likely a more current set up, but either which way, I could not sleep nights without it.
Carolyne
A Licenced REALTOR (R) for 29 years
Serving homeowners in Burlington and Brampton ON CA
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Subject: RealTalk: Re: Does anyone know anything about External Backup Drives? ID00DW0O
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So I had a Maxtor, external drive that I paid an IT guy to set up for me. So I had a crash in December of 2008. The backup was worthless. I'm still putting all the little details back in place. I am doing it myself now as that is so costly in terms of time AND money that I will make sure it is done and done right.
By the time I reacreated all my email sigs, the settings, all the little programs that I can't live with out such as Anagrams (captures into outlook but I believe you can use some of the other adins' now such as Grab it that comes with linkedIn, etc., Snagit, setttings, roboforms, and on and on...I really would like to set up an entire image that saves software and all my settings. Somethign that literally makes an exact copy of what I've got going on the computer.
Has anybody done this succesfully? And if so what do you use and how do you have it set up?
I am backing up just my docs manually until I make my decision. I have investigated Acronis software (recommended by Best Buy) that does an incremental backup and operates in the background all the time. Has anyone had any experiece with this software or that style of back up? I believe it does create a series of back up generations.
It took me so long to install all the software and such that I really would like an exact image of the machine, but so far I have not found a solution. I do know one thing for certain. It is very expensive to put a computer with all it's data, software, and the like back together. So I do NOT want to skimp on this!
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