Backup help please
Hi Peeps,
Well! I have spent the last few days often worrying about ‘back-up’, after Raindropsies run of bad luck a week ago. Please advise me what to do next with my life. I have backed up data regularly since 1980, but not very efficiently. From the days of no pesky mice and 5 3/4 inch floppies, through miles of tape and right up to my current memory stick, but I am no techie.
The advice given to Raindropsie2, after her unfortunate event makes me wonder whether I should now come firmly into the 21st Century, as I no longer operate with 28 Mb of RAM and a Floppy Disc. All the boxes of floppies in the cupboard are in reality so much junk. Most of the CDs need go hang outside, to scare the birds off the raspberries next year. I suddenly realise I should probably be backing up all those wonderful open source programmes and updated drivers I have spent time finding, or you wonderful people have recommended, and I have downloaded. Also my data backup no longer gets updated each day and put on disc, because modern computers simply swallow seemingly infinite data. So I only get to back up data when I update the stick to take the data somewhere else and think, naughty – must back up properly, regularly! I used to do it every 10 minutes!!! LOL!!!
BUT COMPUTERS STILL GO WRONG! So! My choices are, I think!
- Pay TalkTalk, my service provider £3.99 a month and get 40gb of automatic online back up (whatever that means). Would I be able to back up my data and my downloads onto such a service, and then simple log in with a new computer and download my current stuff? Sound like a miracle! But if it is true, £3.99 a month sounds cheap for peace of mind. But its still nearly £1 a week! Annoying if it does not work like that.
- Somehow, by some conjuring trick, I could duplicate my desktop onto my laptop. They both run on XP Home Edition. This would be very useful, ‘cos when I ran out of the house in my nightshirt, with the flames swishing round my legs, I could have everything on my laptop and continue listing more auctions. I am sure one of you Kitchen Table peeps will explain how to manage this, ‘cos I have no idea how to do it automatically. To transfer everything manually, every time I used either machine, just would not get done and I would get even more mixed up than I am already – I have difficulty with 2 memory sticks.
- Or, I could have a separate duplicate hard drive, but that does not sound much of an advance on the Zip Drive that got stolen years ago. At least the Zip discs were portable and I don’t fancy putting a hard drive in my pocket every time I go to the Post Office.
- Alternatively someone might have THE ANSWER!!!
Please peeps, advice in time for an ancient computer user to carry on,
Thanks so very much, Steven
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