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To: The Philosopher who wrote (16938)	2/27/2001 2:00:51 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110628

christopher, glad to help. yes, we have discussed back up methods here quite regularly and thoroughly. "everybody says to back up your comuter religiously, but all the backup software programs seem to have disappeared" well, there sure is a lot of fan support on this thread for powerquest's DriveImage software..... "Drive Image makes quick work of time-consuming backups and upgrades to larger hard disks. Drive Image 4.0 allows you to reliably create and store images of your entire hard disk or individual partitions until you need them. Drive Image contains all the tools you need to effortlessly safeguard and upgrade your computer." powerquest.com you have an ideal system (imo) already in place with a second physical hard drive to store images on. you can also avail yourself of another program that is popular on this thread, PartionMagic, to create drives (partitions) and do other cool things.... powerquest.com so keep us informed on what you decide with managing your start up apps, and any other questions or input you'd like to share. :) mark

To: The Philosopher who wrote (16938)	2/27/2001 2:36:51 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110628

Christopher, I too have a 100MB ZIP drive and use it to back up my data files in real time. The program is Iomega's QuikSync2, free to try. You can identify any number of folders you want to back up. Then it will automatically back onto ZIP any new or altered file in any of those folders. You can select the timing: immediately, every hour, whatever. There's a download at iomega.com Gottfried

To: The Philosopher who wrote (16938)	2/27/2001 8:03:18 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110628

Image your drive, then copy critical data to ZIP or CDR/CDRW in case of theft or fire: Message 15361970 My critical data is close to 1 GB. That's multimedia projects & graphics, WordPerfect docs, spreadsheets, Data for a Pilot, Quicken Files, etc. I back this up in case of fire or theft. My C: is about 5GB of data, I image that to a second hard drive as mentioned in the link above. Once you start doing this on a regular basis, it's very quick and will become routine. I also plan on buying a ZIP 250, as I find them very handy. ZIP 100's are just too small.