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rastagard · 07-04-2003, 10:25 AM

Great post, igalan!

I back up my entire C: drive using Norton Ghost and an extra HDD.This has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.

In addition I make frequent backups of My Documents, which for me will fit comfortably on a single DVD-RW. Anything I "save" goes into "My Documents". I also copy my bookmarks, and other key items into this folder and I save a copy of my "Documents and Settings" folder into this as well. (this folder contains most every custom setting for your programs. ) This is on a seperate partition and I occasionally Ghost this in its entirety onto another HDD as well.

To parphrase a well known saying, There are only three things you need to do with your computer to avoid disaster, Back-up, Back-up and Back-up!

07-04-2003, 10:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
rastagard Humble Idiot Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 2,271	Great post, igalan! I back up my entire C: drive using Norton Ghost and an extra HDD.This has saved my bacon on more than one occasion. In addition I make frequent backups of My Documents, which for me will fit comfortably on a single DVD-RW. Anything I "save" goes into "My Documents". I also copy my bookmarks, and other key items into this folder and I save a copy of my "Documents and Settings" folder into this as well. (this folder contains most every custom setting for your programs. ) This is on a seperate partition and I occasionally Ghost this in its entirety onto another HDD as well. To parphrase a well known saying, There are only three things you need to do with your computer to avoid disaster, Back-up, Back-up and Back-up!