Re: Tom Malas "1931 833 Restoration "

Posted by BigKev On 2007/8/2 13:19:19

Buy a USB harddrive. You can get a 120 gb drive for under $100 that runs right off the USB power. Ultra portable, and safe insurance. Plus if you ever want to share files with someone else it makes it easy to lugg them around without having to burn CD's or DVD's that are one-time write.

I have the entire website, all my music, all my restoration pictures backed up on one. That way if my laptop fails a 4 foot drop test, all the infomation is stored and ready to use on another PC.

I use a free-ware utility called Sync-Back which I can use to schedule automatic backups of exactly what I want. That way I wont forget to actually back it up.

On top of that I keep an entire backup on my corporate server at work. So if something was to happed to both my laptop and my backup driver. I still have a 2nd "offsite" backup. I know that sounds extreme, but it has saved my bacon more than once.

If you have multiple PC's in your house, then you can buy a NAS drive. NAS stands for Network Addressable Storage. Basically it's a self contained drive that hangs off your wired or wireless home network and all you home PCs can backup to it.