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6 months ago

in We’re Giving Away Coosh Headphones, Bundled With… An iPod Touch! (And A Tiny Review) on OhGizmo!
my gf dumped me...my fingers have nothing to do so please gimme an iPod to keep them happy! Happy holidays all!

1 year ago

in OhGizmo! » Archive » Question Of The Moment: How Do You Back Up Your Data? on OhGizmo!
I use an external harddrive with Norton Ghost and Beyond compare.

My Windows installation resides on my C drive and all my data on the D drive (mapping My Documents to D also to keep things simple).

Re-installing Windows with my programs, frequently, became tedious so rather than go through the whole painful process I now use Norton Ghost to clone my C drive and store the image files on an external HDD. If Windows fails or starts misbehaving then I can get my machine back up and running within 30mins...I also make OS backups each time I have a significant number of new programs configured and working trouble free. This really takes the pain out of hunting round for installation disks, serial numbers etc...

For data I found that Norton Ghost took too long (as it copies all files). Instead I use Beyond Compare. Each week I do a compare of the files on my external HDD and those on my machine and just sync over new/deleted/changed files.

External HDDs have the usual drawbacks and won't stop those pesky llamas but kept in a differnt room it's pretty safe. If you're seriously paranoid about your data then there's always those fireproof safes....but that could end up expensive and a pain if you're making daily backups...
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