[TheForge] A little help please

[Paul Sperbeck]

Lynn Emrich wrote:
> I had a hard disk crash a while back and lost all my
> links. I know, I should 
> have backed up.
> If anyone can send me a link to the person who
> collected all the knife maker 
> resources I would greatly appreciate the help.
> Thanks,
> Lynn
>
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I know it's of little help at this point but a useful program for backup 
of specific files or directories (folders) is the Replicator from 
Karenware. It is a freeware program and I use it to store copies of the 
mail files and the favorites in Thunderbird and Firefox. You have to 
locate the directories where the files are stored, but after that the 
program will back up the data in question on a schedule if you wish.
Find it here:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
I don't backup the entire hard drive very often, but I keep a printout 
of the directories to see what I have installed over the years.
Find Karlen's answer to this here:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
I have a backup of my drives on a removable hard drive and use Acronis
Find it here:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
to backup my complete system. If I have a crash I will most likely do a 
fresh install...a major pia but overdue.
Acronis also has a differential backup
Find it here:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/features-details.html
that will continually backup changes to your system and files, but to 
just keep a copy of your email and bookmarks, which can nicely fit onto 
a usb flash drive, I prefer Replicator.
I am still using a Win2K install which is about 2.5 years old. Regular 
maintenance and frequent spyware and AV sweeps keep the system 
moderately happy.
Acronis creates a Linux boot cd that you can use to boot the computer 
and restore a backup from many sources to restore an image to a new hard 
drive. Sounds like an ad but I just like it.
The bottom line is do something to protect your links and any other data 
you want to keep. Very important data should be stored on multiple 
different data  storage devices or media. I use external hard drives, 
usb flash drives and DVD-RAM all of which have a better memory than I do.

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