Yes, you are correct about the flash/thumb/USB drives, Olivia. I haven't had one fail - yet! - but I know they can. And if my house burns down, they will burn too, along with our desktop and my laptop. Horrible thought! Over a year ago I somehow lost my thumb drive, and that prompted me to install the free Mozy. It's good to know that my latest backups and additions to my files are safe and secure outside my home and that I can easily retrieve them if I need to. You always give good advice and suggestions, Olivia. Yvonne Scott ---- Original Message ----- From: "Olivia & Larry Braddy" <olbraddy@pineland.net> > Yvonne, if by "thumb drive" you mean the little USB flash drives, beware! > These things are bad about becoming corrupt and then they're inaccessible. > I've had two to do that, and what's so bad, I didn't keep a list of what > I'd > downloaded on them, so have no idea what I lost. I do know I had a lot of > pictures on them, as well as old e-mail I wanted to keep. Too bad--they're > now gone forever! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yvonne Scott" <yscott12@att.net> > > >> Olivia is right! I've used the free Mozy for over a year and it's a >> great >> deal. You choose the files you want backed up, and it's easy to see when >> you reach your free 2 GB. I have my genealogy database and a lot of my >> documents & pictures set to back up every day. Now if my house burns >> down,everything is safely stored online, encrypted and private. I once >> lost a >> document and used Mozy's restore feature to get it back. It was quick >> and >> simple. I still back up to a thumb drive too - you just can't have too >> many types of back ups! >> >> Yvonne Scott
Thank you, Yvonne. Hope it helped someone. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvonne Scott" <yscott12@att.net> To: <gaemanue@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [GAEMANUE] Free online backup system > Yes, you are correct about the flash/thumb/USB drives, Olivia. I haven't > had one fail - yet! - but I know they can. And if my house burns down, > they > will burn too, along with our desktop and my laptop. Horrible thought! > Over > a year ago I somehow lost my thumb drive, and that prompted me to install > the free Mozy. It's good to know that my latest backups and additions to > my > files are safe and secure outside my home and that I can easily retrieve > them if I need to. You always give good advice and suggestions, Olivia. > > Yvonne Scott > > ---- Original Message ----- > From: "Olivia & Larry Braddy" <olbraddy@pineland.net> > >> Yvonne, if by "thumb drive" you mean the little USB flash drives, beware! >> These things are bad about becoming corrupt and then they're >> inaccessible. >> I've had two to do that, and what's so bad, I didn't keep a list of what >> I'd >> downloaded on them, so have no idea what I lost. I do know I had a lot of >> pictures on them, as well as old e-mail I wanted to keep. Too >> bad--they're >> now gone forever! >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Yvonne Scott" <yscott12@att.net> >> > >>> Olivia is right! I've used the free Mozy for over a year and it's a >>> great >>> deal. You choose the files you want backed up, and it's easy to see >>> when >>> you reach your free 2 GB. I have my genealogy database and a lot of my >>> documents & pictures set to back up every day. Now if my house burns >>> down,everything is safely stored online, encrypted and private. I once >>> lost a >>> document and used Mozy's restore feature to get it back. It was quick >>> and >>> simple. I still back up to a thumb drive too - you just can't have too >>> many types of back ups! >>> >>> Yvonne Scott > > Emanuel County GaGenWeb > http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GAEMANUE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 45967 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message