----- Original Message ----- From: Family Tree Finders <soda-send@gt.sodamail.com> To: <ladyd@dnaco.net> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 6:07 PM Subject: Family Tree Finders Monday January 10, 2000 > > > FAMILY TREE FINDERS > Monday - 10 January 2000 > > Do You Have Back Up? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Remember wishing you could record onto CDs? Well now you > can! Read, Write and ReWrite! Store your photos on a CD for > a lifetime of well-preserved memories, and record and > re-write your own music CDs! With JVC 4x2x24x CDRW. Burn > baby, burn. Starting @ $1. > > http://fc4e.com/server/ecl//y4AAPa9AABTQQAAlU4AAAAAAAACAA== > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > I have often referred to genealogy as the safe man's mystery, > so why am I now asking you if you have back up? Well you > can relax, I am not referring to someone making sure you are > safe, at least not in the sense of a police show you see on > television. The back up I am talking about is for your > computer and is to ensure that all that hard work you have > done is safe. > > Genealogists come in one of two brands when it comes to > computers. There is the newcomers to computers who are still > intimidated by those nasty machines and then you have the > computer experts. Both of these groups have something in > common though - neither one seems to think about backing up > the data on their computers. And there are a few ways to do > this. > > In the old days, which in computers means about ten years > ago, it was easy to back up the hard drive onto floppies. That > was back when a 20 meg hard drive was a big deal. Today we > have 13 and 16 gig hard drives. It is impossible to back these > up to floppy disks. But backing up is very important. > > Backing up offers you the chance to recover should something > happen. Computers are machines built by humans. This > pretty much guarantees they will have a hiccup or two. And > that hiccup is almost certain to take place about three days > after you have just finished entering about 400 new > individuals into your genealogy database. So how do you > avoid this catastrophe? > > You will want to look into backup systems. With writable > CD-ROMs, you may already have a backup system available. > Or you may want to look into a tape back-up system. Finally > for those with smaller hard drives, one of the Zip or Jaz drives > might be an alternative. > > Deciding what is the best option for you will depend largely > on your computer system and your computer knowledge. If > you are not very secure in your abilities where your computer > is concerned, you won't want anything that is going to require > opening your computer, unless you get someone else to do it. > You also want to keep in mind what is involved in creating the > backup. Will your complete hard drive fit on one disk or will > you need to have multiple disks? > > One of the best ways to learn about the different options for > backing up is through computer magazines. There are a > variety of magazines you can purchase at your local bookstore > that will frequently review backup products. And sometimes > you will find that they do a feature article comparing the > different products side by side. > > Right now there is an excellent article at the FamilyPC web > Site: > > http://familypc.zdnet.com/hardware/desktops/feature/survival/ > > that offers a look at computer survival in general, and offers > some thoughts on backing up. > > Regardless of what system you decide on, be sure to actually > do it. Computers are not fail-free. At some point you will > find that you need that backup. I don't want you to be one of > those people who is lamenting that they "should have" backed > up their data. > > > > Rhonda R. McClure > rhondam@sodamail.com > > If you know someone who is interested in genealogy, > please forward this entire message to them! > _________________________________________________ > To subscribe to Family Tree Finders, send a blank e-mail message to: > join-family-tree-finders@gt.sodamail.com > > At the site you can change your address, cancel or join: > http://207.153.204.247/cgi-bin/gt/login.html > > To cancel your free subscription don't hit reply,send a blank email from > your subscription address: ladyd@dnaco.net > > To: > leave-family-tree-finders@gt.sodamail.com > ________________________________________________ > Copyright 1999 by SodaMail. All rights reserved. > http://www.sodamail.com > > > > >