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[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 23 Aug 2008, at 07:28 , Mary Sullivan wrote:
> I only had 1 drive, that's why I went down, but
> I still don't know how to do back up, Chris was going to show me  
> all that.



Well, up until now, I use the incredibly dumb and brute force method  
of occasionally copying my entire "active" music library from one  
hard drive to the the backup drive.  I attach the backup drive, copy  
the music library to it (replacing the old version of the backup),  
and then I disconnect the backup drive until the next time I do a  
backup.

I need to buy some larger drives (which is gonna have to wait until  
at least I get through the next round of house payments, if not until  
I'm next in the States), and I plan to buy some decent backup  
software (which will compare my "active" and "backup" copies of the  
music library, and then only copy across the bits that have changed  
in the "active" library to the "backup" library -- which should be  
quicker and more efficient.

There are many backup packages available, but as I have a Mac, I  
can't really say that much about the relative merits of backup  
software for Windows.

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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