On 29 Dec 2002, Bill Harms wrote: > There is another possibility for backups that I > don't recall seeing mentioned here, and that is > backing up the critical files on another computer > over the lan. I have a LAN with three computers. > I back-up the files to another machine. Also > about once per week, I back up the entire > directory and subdirectories where I have all of > my geneaology files. > > Keep smiling, > Bill Harms I agree with Bill. A second computer is the ultimate backup. I have FO on both machines and all my database files on each. I dan't have LAN but do have the two tied together via LapLink and can transfer files back and forth with no problem. This applies to .GED files and .ZIP files as well as the 35 data files for each database. One thing I've observed when looking at the data files is that they are not all the same date. If I have an editing session on a database, only a few of the data files get updated to the currebt date. Then when I tell LapLink to copy over the all the files, it skips the ones that don't have a newer date. What this means is that I can synchronize both machines very quickly - no messing around with exporting and importing GEDCOMS or backing up and restoring ZIP files. Charles Gohlke