SCLH Computer Club Jan. 13, 2006
Backup Clinic
Ways to Backup by capacity and/or ease of use:
Floppy Disk (limit 1.4mb)
USB Flash Drive (limit 1gb) {and growing}
CD Rom (limit ~650mb)
DVD Rom (limit ~7gb) {and growing}
Second Internal Hard Drive (limit.. nearly unlimited)
USB External Hard Drive (limit.. nearly unlimited)
Network Storage Appliance (limit.. nearly unlimited)
Another PC on my network (limit.. nearly unlimited)
Internet Data Repository (unlimited)
Where is my Data ? >> You need to know this !!
Single User default location: MyDocuments
Multi User PC: Documents and Settings\username\MyDocuments
Outlook Express and/or Outlook email files:
Documents and
Settings\username\applicationdata\microsoft\outlook
If you use Quicken, Geneology, CAD, Photo, etc, etc… you must
find out where the data store is and make a note to include this in
your backup. If possible, relocate the folder into “MyDocuments”.
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SCLH Computer Club Jan. 13, 2006
Backup Clinic
Backup Software;
Roxio s/w $ 80
Other highly rated shareware:
Genie Backup Shareware 2k, More i
Manager Home XP nfo
Edition
This program backs up files and folders, Outlook Express files,...
BackUp Maker Shareware 98, NT, 2k, Me, XP, 95, More info
2003
This program creates ZIP-compatible data backups that you can burn...
Active Backup Shareware 98, NT, 2k, Me, XP, More i
Expert Pro 2003 nfo
This tool creates automated or manual backups of local and network...
Drive Imaging Software:
Acronis s/w $ 49
Hard Drive Image
www.acronis.com — Award-Winning Disk Imaging Suite Full System Backup & Disk Cloning
Hard Disk Imaging
www.drive-backup.com — Pro backup tool to create/restore an image of partition or whole disk
Image for Windows
terabyteunlimited.com — Windows and DOS based disk imaging utilities.
On Line Storage:
For email, contacts, notes & tasks: SBC-YAHOO
For Financials: Quicken On line and/or any On-Line Banking
For Photos: www.snapfish.com
For Data: www.Ibackup.com 5gb = $9.95/mo, 10gb $19.95/mo
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