Post by Catbatty on Sept 14, 2022 16:18:59 GMT -5
BACKING UP IS SO IMPORTANT. I have been reading. I never knew that THUMB DRIVES...in fact, most types of mechanical things that back up our stuff....ARE TEMPORARY. THEY LEAK. (aka DRAIN--die off.) Some quickly go and some take longer...but you never know what yours will do.
So, I have read that we should backup to online services (I have for years), which is safer... or backup to lots of places and different types of ways.
I suggest, if you all back up your stuff, that you do like I did and read up on the subject. (What I read is: flash or thumb drives are NOT for backing up. Transferring stuff perhaps...but not for backing up.)
(I mentioned to my daughter last night and she already knew all this....she is IT person for Microsoft. I barely got the words out to her and she finished my sentence with one word "leaks". She says they have a product that backs up online and to several places (redundancy for protection). Well, I'll look into theirs but I'm betting it is more for biz.
So, yes, I am renewing my online service and this time, I think I will opt for the additional disk they make (for faster loading all my stuff back. I have a terrabyte of stuff backed up. It's mostly my cookbooks, my ebooks, all my Mastercook stuff...a lifetime of my work and my friend's work. I'd be lost of I lost it all. (And I'm constantly reading that it happens to people. One gal in our Mastercook recipe group just posted that she lost ALL of her stuff...her computer fried or died or something., Anyway: it's all gone...she is sad.)
Catbatty
So, I have read that we should backup to online services (I have for years), which is safer... or backup to lots of places and different types of ways.
I suggest, if you all back up your stuff, that you do like I did and read up on the subject. (What I read is: flash or thumb drives are NOT for backing up. Transferring stuff perhaps...but not for backing up.)
(I mentioned to my daughter last night and she already knew all this....she is IT person for Microsoft. I barely got the words out to her and she finished my sentence with one word "leaks". She says they have a product that backs up online and to several places (redundancy for protection). Well, I'll look into theirs but I'm betting it is more for biz.
So, yes, I am renewing my online service and this time, I think I will opt for the additional disk they make (for faster loading all my stuff back. I have a terrabyte of stuff backed up. It's mostly my cookbooks, my ebooks, all my Mastercook stuff...a lifetime of my work and my friend's work. I'd be lost of I lost it all. (And I'm constantly reading that it happens to people. One gal in our Mastercook recipe group just posted that she lost ALL of her stuff...her computer fried or died or something., Anyway: it's all gone...she is sad.)
Catbatty
