I have just bought a maxtor external hard drive and I back everything up on there and you can select the frequency at which it does it and trust me its easy
tony
tony
Hi emamum.
When you go for an external backup drive, you don't need one any bigger than the hard drive in the machine. Most of them come wth a setup cd that allows you to schedule the type and time of backup.
Retlaw
When you go for an external backup drive, you don't need one any bigger than the hard drive in the machine. Most of them come wth a setup cd that allows you to schedule the type and time of backup.
Retlaw
Is the music on just the external drive? If so you will loose it all if it dies on you. The idea of a backup is to have your data saved in more than one place at once.
If its just a backup of your data what about DVD, do you have a dvd writer on your PC?
Backing up to a DVD is the most cost effective option if your data is measured in gigabytes and a lot of them.
The next best option is a 2GB memory stick (if you have a spare USB port). They are probably cheaper and larger now but my 2GB memory stick cost me £15. I use it for backing up data that changes daily.
Failing all that it can only be a series of CD’s. You should be able to store two or three hundred pictures on a CD but that will depend on the picture sizes. But not many tunes.
I’m looking forward to the day when the “Memory Stick” is developed into humungous sizes (a few hundred gig) with a super fast USB port, thus making a traditional hard drive obsolete.
My OS partition is backed up using Paragon imaging software and a copy of the image is burned to 2 re-writable DVD’s once a month.
My data partition is also backed up to 3 re-writable DVD’s as standard files also once a month.
The next best option is a 2GB memory stick (if you have a spare USB port). They are probably cheaper and larger now but my 2GB memory stick cost me £15. I use it for backing up data that changes daily.
Failing all that it can only be a series of CD’s. You should be able to store two or three hundred pictures on a CD but that will depend on the picture sizes. But not many tunes.
I’m looking forward to the day when the “Memory Stick” is developed into humungous sizes (a few hundred gig) with a super fast USB port, thus making a traditional hard drive obsolete.
My OS partition is backed up using Paragon imaging software and a copy of the image is burned to 2 re-writable DVD’s once a month.
My data partition is also backed up to 3 re-writable DVD’s as standard files also once a month.
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That’s not being stupid.
That’s called, in the modern parlance, “thinking outside the box.”
BT gives you some storage space for just that reason. 10MB I think it is. I seem to remember seeing 10MB being mentioned when I log in sometimes.
With BT you can have up to 5 different email addresses and each comes with it’s own 10MB storage space plus 15MB of free web space. You don’t have to build a web site in your free web space. You can dump pictures in there if you want.
Then if the URL of your web space is http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected] you can view your pictures by typing http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/001.jpg into your browser address field, where 001.jpg is the name of your picture.
Just try this:
The URL is http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/BlackSquirrel.jpg and http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/nipper.gif
You can progress from that to writing your own simple web site that will show all your pics one after another at the click of a mouse.
Better still go to this URL http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/pictures.html for an idea of how your slide show might look.
Just click on each picture to go to then next one.
Just click on each picture to go to then next one.
seems like a lot of hassle for a few megabytes when BT digital vault offers gigabytes for nowt if you are a BT total broadband user. Keep your eyes open as they often offe it for 'free' as a special offer to anyone.
there are other services that you can use for this as well. e.g. 110mb.com
there are other services that you can use for this as well. e.g. 110mb.com
