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well the hard drives are in and I got back up!
I just put up that latest chapter of Vantier for all of you, that has been waiting for a few weeks.
I had to work and that killed my time off....then add, I work with my hands and typing at the days end is Nye impossible! at times. Then next, when I was done with my assignment. The hard drive failed!
But Nuuan led me through some ideas on how to get some stuff out of it --FREEZING the darn thing overnight in my freezer in a bag. That gave it the KICK! to get it on for the time I needed to get that stuff off it! AND that took a few days as the drive was WAY! slow.
But now its all fixed and I am running 2 drives and backing up with a vengeance!
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Just a thought
1 TB portable USB hard drives are about $70. I have three of them.
Just a thought.
Gwen
Wouldn't that be SAL 9000?
I suggested one of those too Gwen, especially since most come with backup software already on them.
SAL was the computer on earth :)
Personally I keep my writing on a portable, then back up to one of the multiple drives on my main computer every few days. Maybe not the best method, but it allows me to grab the portable and throw it in my laptop bag if I want to go sit on the porch, or at the park or even coffee shop and write.
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Online backups
You can use online services as a quick backup for your important files, like OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox. That will keep the latest version of a file that you are working on once you save it out of the application.
I would still recommend a USB drive, as Gwen has, for long term backup/archiving.
You CAN...
But I for one don't suggest it. Not for really important files at least. If it's something you're perfectly fine and ready to lose ownership of, go ahead, but otherwise... have you READ the user agreements for those services? I wouldn't trust them with anything I don't want public.
For anything you want to retain ownership of, keep it on you. Extra hard drives, external or otherwise, etc. Don't put it on the cloud.
Abigail Drew.
Encryption
If the file is encrypted, they got less chances to steel the owners write of it, as they got to crack it open first.
But that just one thought.
Peace and Love tmf
The cloud
That is an on going argument, however Western Digital have a series of external drives ranging in capacity from 2tb to 12tb they call 'My Cloud' and rather than having extra clutter around your PC you can hide it out of the way as it connects via home wifi, software can be set to auto backup as well.
Like the online clouds you can access it elsewhere also, and if I have read the blurb right the option in win 8 & 10 'Save to Cloud' can be set to save to the 'My Cloud'