Comment from Kathy on 2007-07-23

2007-07-23T10:11:36Z

I live in a wildfire area and have been evacuated twice. More frightening than computers or documents are family photographs. I have backed them up, keep discs in my safety deposit box and in my emergency kit. Keeping copies of them on a safe website is also great. Too bad Yahoo Photos is closing.

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Comment from Ken Crook on 2007-07-22

2007-07-22T10:46:10Z

I use Acronis TrueImage to backup my computer, so if I need to restore the system I just reinstall the image.
But if my house burnt down, my computer would go with it. And my new computer would not be compatible with the backed up image of the old computer.
So at least once a month I make a backup to CD's of the MyDocuments folder where I keep all my files and other stuff, and keep it at another location. That way on the new computer I can just copy the backup of the MyDocuments folder to the new computer. I will still need to reinstall some of the programs and such but nothing important is lost.

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Comment from Kathy on 2007-07-23

Comment from Ken Crook on 2007-07-22