Hello, I wonder if non-Mac users can submit URLs to WaybackMachine storage too? Cheers,     John   ~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com To:"Julie Apps" , Cc: Sent:Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:21:21 +1100 Subject:Re: [PJ] Always keep a copy of your research or publish it all Dear List, >From bitter experience I believe in multiple redundancies ("tell me three times" if you are a reader of Robert Heinlein). I back up to the "Cloud", have hard copy, share wherever I can, back up onto an external hard-drive, have on-line trees (though these are not my priority). My biggest hassles over the years have been computer changeovers and crashes, dating right back to 5 1/4" floppy discs on (embarrassed moment here) Microbee using Wordstar. As someone else said, photographs and documents are another issue - but I'm gradually scanning those items at the highest reasonable resolution (in .tif format). I'm told there are also archive facilities online (Pandora, Wayback Machine, other?) but I haven't used them. If you are using iMac you will have an external "Time Machine" backup facility and this can be programmed to happen automatically. I keep alternating two "time machines" every month or so. If you go on holidays, leave one of them with a friend. I have a distant relative and fellow researcher who carries a copy of all her research on a portable external hard drive in her handbag. Good luck with the Reunion disc. On 2 January 2014 10:40, Julie Apps wrote: > Dear List, > > The discussion on keeping research couldn't have come at a more > appropriate time for me. I have only just rejoined the list because of a > computer problem.(My other email address disappeared )In October last year > I suffered a GCC (Great computer Crash) and lost all my data on my hard > drive when it "Fried". I think the technical term is burnt out. I had not > backed anything up externally and except for a small amount of data I had > kept on a thumb drive for another organisation I belong to, everything > went. To cut a long story short three months and over a thousand dollars > later a data recovery firm retrieved my photos and most of my files. I > bought a new computer and thought I could reconstruct my family tree > material using the original Reunion disk. NO. The latest Apple OS system > "does not support" a third party disk or so it said. I'm contacting the > people I bought the program from to see what I can do. Luckily any of the > details I had stored on > Ancestry.com were not lost, > > The moral of this story is always back up your data externally every day. > I do now. As well as others have suggested I'm exploring ways of > replicating my records both digitally and in written form. > Its great to be back on the list and I'm looking forward to reading all > your interesting posts and learning more about. > > > Julie > > > > > > On Thursday, 2 January 2014 8:55 AM, Lisa Apfel > wrote: > > Listers, > In our constantly changing world I find it is the hardest thing to know > where to store my data. I don't agree with having to subscribe to websites > such as Ancestry and Genes Reunited etc and believe if you wish to publish > it should either be made freely available or available to purchase from the > researcher, not a web host! > Back to where to store the information we have gathered though. I have > gone from paper, to floppy discs, to cd's, to memory sticks, to external > hard drives and most recently "the Cloud". I don't know if this is the > correct approach and it doesn't help with storing original material that I > have inherited or generated such as photos, certificates and a family > bible. These I have taken some digital copies of but the originals need > proper archiving. We really do need to be experts in so many areas, from a > historian, a researcher, a technology guru to even an archivist- what a > hobby we have all undertaken. > Lisa > > > > On 1 Jan 2014, at 17:53, "maxban1938@yahoo.com.au" < > maxban1938@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > > > natural disasters, wars etc. > > It initially cost me about $20.00 to join and having been a member for > about > > five years now only costs about $15.00 as they give a small loyalty > discount > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Jennifer ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message