Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] Consensus on external hard drives
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Thu Jul 20 18:07:34 2006
References: <9b678e0607201509w38f3d4f6gabd7a9d46059577b@mail.gmail.com> <8D8FB168974F78C337F623E8@scarborough.isc.org> <000001c6ac61$085f3420$6101a8c0@jimnichols>

i use a little utility provided by microsoft called synctoy (google
it) and it is a wonderfull back tool. i use to use all osrt of back
tools but not just a smart copy to a live disk. works much better.

On 7/20/06, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> The reason that I mentioned the transition problem is that I had previously
> used MSBackup, which was provided with Win98SE.  When a failed power supply
> forced me to buy a new machine with XP Home installed, I found that my
> compressed MSBackup files were unreadable on the new machine.  Perhaps, 
> with
> your expertise, it could have been done.  As someone on the LUG suggested
> when I mentioned the problem, I now create a folder each week on the
> external drive and do a "Copy/Paste" of "My Documents" plus a folder
> containing some images.  The folders are nested in a folder containing only
> 2006 Backups.  It takes very little time and should always be accessible
> from Windows.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
>
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  regards, mehrdad

In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Consensus on external hard drives)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Consensus on external hard drives)
Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Consensus on external hard drives)