[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] storing genealogical information

[Otto]

Last fall one morning before I checked E-mail, I saw my "trash" needed  
emptying and did so with a quick  keyboard command. I was horrified  
when it didn't do a "blip" and done . . . It kept erasing for 30  
seconds! I checked my "desktop" (on an iMac) and saw that the night  
before I obviously had dragged a folder with two months work in it  
including one of a kind graphics into the trash with a "right/click"  
command. Gone! After pounding my head on the tabletop for five  
minutes, I'd recognized where the problem was, I decided to organize  
properly.

The iMac system has an application called "Time Machine" that backs up  
hard-disks connected every hour on the hour while the computer is in  
use. Should something "disappear" as did my folder, Time Machine  
allows me to go back in time by the hour to the beginning of its use  
and "restore" any missing files or folders or whatever to my desktop.

To use the Time Machine application I purchased a Lacie 500 gigabyte  
hard-drive (disk memory is inexpensive) and dedicated it to the sole  
use of the Time Machine application for backup. It backs up my iMac  
hard-drive and my auxiliary hard-drive.

THE BEST PART- When I started the new Lacie Hard-drive it had its own  
backup application on it (which I didn't use).  I am certain a similar  
application is available for Microsoft Windows machines.

Why keep track of which files you backed up and when?
                        Back up everything!
Everything on my hard-drive is backed up, including the operating  
system, behind the scene while I work, every hour on the hour.

I no longer need be accused of "senior moments"...  :D))


On May 13, 2009, at 11:29 AM, F&RM Haddad wrote:

> I'm the one who had the near-miss
> So in your opinion, what is the best way (what are the best ways) to  
> store
> your information?
>
> Rose-Marie


. . .   Otto
          " The Zen moment..." wk. of January 04, 2009-
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