[AT] OT: Computer crash and data loss

[Carl Gogol]

Ouch- had a similar experience, but the local repair shop got us restored 
for not a lot of money.
For the future, USB hard drives are currently selling for abut $100 for 1-2 
terabytes.  Windows will schedule a daily backup of new material added to 
the old any time you specify, say 2 AM.  All that would be lost would be 
anything changed or added since the last scheduled daily backup.  I now have 
2 USB drives and try to monthly rotate them through our off-site safe 
deposit box.  Got thinking that the worst thing that could happen would be a 
fire and all of our life's pictures would disappear even with on site backup 
drive.  Most everything else is restorable with time.  Would only lose 1 
month's worth in the worst case.
Carl

-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Waugh
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:05 PM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Computer crash and data loss

Dean that is a bummer. I have a USB many GB hard drive which is external. It 
will back up pretty much in the background. Thanks for the reminder, it has 
been a couple of weeks since last back up with the holidays in there.
At least it wasn't a virus, that would really tick me off.
Paul

Dean wrote

So, just a reminder to folks, don't forget to back up anything you don't 
want to lose.  I'm not a big fan of "cloud" backup services, but will be a 
lot more disciplined about using that external hard drive or making backup 
CDs or something.  Meanwhile, back to the drawing board...

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio (soon to be Saint Paris, Ohio!)

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