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To: Berk who wrote (42756)	8/27/2004 10:49:27 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 110653

Dick, I have no experience with external HDs, but think it's a good way to back up. On the other hand, installing a second HD is cheaper and cleaner [less cable clutter]. If you want to protect against physical disasters of any kind [fire, theft of equipment], then storage on the internet makes sense. Gottfried

To: Berk who wrote (42756)	8/27/2004 11:06:17 AM
From: B.K.Myers	Respond to of 110653

Dick, I have an 80G external hard drive that I use for backup. I had one problem when using Microsoft's backup utility. I am running Windows 98SE and there is a file size limit, so I had to create two backup jobs. One job backups my main system and program files and the other backup job backups everything else. I have a second "differential" backup job that I run monthly or before I make any major changes to my system. I also simply copy everything on my internal hard drive to a folder on the external drive. That gives me a quick and easy way to recover anything I need. I haven't had to do an entire system restore since I started using the external hard drive. I do have a bootable floppy with all the necessary system files and almost all of my original CDs so that I should be able to reinstall or restore my entire system if the need arises. B.K.

To: Berk who wrote (42756)	8/27/2004 2:16:12 PM
From: RMP	Respond to of 110653

I have an external usb drive I use to periodically create an image of the internal drive. It’s east to do and if there are any problems I can just restore the image. That has saved my but in the past.

To: Berk who wrote (42756)	8/27/2004 5:27:48 PM
From: Raptech	Respond to of 110653

I am using a Seagate USB 2.0 external drive and find it to be terrific for backups. It's a 160 gb which is probably overkill but I found it at CompUSA at a great price. I can set it for unattended backups and it does my complete drive (40gb) in about 15 minutes. I also have some important work files that I backup every night that takes about 3 minutes. In the beginning I had a little difficulty finding compatible backup software, but now using Bounce Back which does the job. Rap

To: Berk who wrote (42756)	8/28/2004 4:01:27 PM
From: Berk	Respond to of 110653

Thanks everyone for the comments. I appreciate your input.

To: Berk who wrote (42756)	8/29/2004 7:45:07 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 110653

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