[Dx4win] Backup to CD-ROM

WL7M [email protected]
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:14:00 -0800


Another option, for those of you who have a web site, is to FTP your logs 
to your ISP's server.  Not real time, but the information should definitely 
be "safe" there, with little worry about lost data with the RAID drives 
they use to safeguard against it.

73,
K+Joe
WL7M

At 10:07 AM 13-04-02, K2DBK - David wrote:

>At 01:47 PM 4/13/2002, WL7M wrote:
>>I use software by called QuickSync 3 by Iomega.  I can set it up to save 
>>my DX4WIN logs at any scheduled time (e.g., every 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 
>>once a week).  I believe the cost is around $30.  Works great!  No worry 
>>about lost logs.
>
>I take a kind of different approach for backup: While I do occasionally 
>back up (manually) to a ZIP disk (it'll be a while before my log hits 
>100Mb), what I do is to email a copy to myself at work and save it there. 
>Sort of the "off-site" backup approach. While not everyone can do that, 
>you might consider mailing it to yourself at an email account on one of 
>the services like hotmail.com. You might want to just ZIP your file first 
>to compress it, but this seems like it should work out OK.
>73,
>         David - K2DBK