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Posted by Andrew on February 11, 2008, 8:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options JimH wrote:
> Just for a different approach...
>
> I leave a backup CD-R in my CD writer. Each day, I use "Karen's
> Replicator" (free software) to copy the Quicken files into a dated
> directory on the CD. The program automatically creates the directory,
> and copies the files. A CD lasts about a month before filling up. I
> write the date on the CD with a Sharpie, and take it to the bank.
> There, I keep them in my safe deposit box with other valuables. Every
> so often, I remove the old ones and destroy them.
>
> If my hard drive fails, or I get a computer virus, or even if there
> is a fire in the house, I have a recent backup available in a safe
> place. I've never had a fire or a computer virus, but I have had hard
> drives fail. They all do eventually.
>
> I also had a quicken problem, and the only way to convince Intuit
> support that it wasn't corrupted data was when I loaded data from
> several months earlier, and still had a failure.
>
> I'd suggest that it should depend on how much your Quicken data is
> worth to you. To me, it is worth much more than the computer, and
> definitely more than the cost of 12 CDs per year.
>
> ---
> Jim
Yet another method, similar, is to buy a cheap USB-connectable hard drive
and use that as the object of your backups. I keep 3 months of daily
backups automatically created across ALL my data daily using Nero backups
(NOT compressing the files). If I need to move my stuff to a new computer,
I can simply unplug the hard drive and reconnect the USB cable to another
PC.
I , like you, also once a month back up to a DVD for off-site storage in
case my system gets fried.
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Regards -
- Andrew
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