Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, The thought of changed operating systems has concerned me as well. When the evil empire formally upgrades OS whenever then I will look at Mac and the deadly nightshade to see what makes sense. The current machine will probably then be used as the public interface with no network connection to the other machines. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 7/20/06, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Don, > > I haven't gone to the large drives, but I use an 80GB Western Digital > external drive in essentially the manner you propose. I store images and > document backups on it and keep it powered down when not in actual > use. It > works fine for me. > > Because I got caught with unreadable backups when I upgraded from Win98 to > XP, I now use a "Copy/Paste" backup routine that takes about 10 minutes > each > Saturday morning. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >