This is all good but, I've said this many times here, if at all possible use CDs or something other than floppies for backups. If you don't have a CD burner you can back up to one of the available free web pages. I have more than 1000 floppies dating back to the late 1980s. About one in four of these are no longer readable. I've had 3 zip drives that have failed so these are no longer usable and 2 tape backup drives. I still have about 20 tapes, (at $20.00 each), but can't find a tape drive that can read them. I've had 4 or more hard drive failures where some data was lost even though I've always had 2 hard drives in my computer. Right now CDs seem to be the best media available but the way technology is advancing even CDs may be obsolete a few years down the road. If you must back up to floppies make several sets so your data is at least semi-safe and keep your data on more than one computer. Regards, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Templeman" <gtempleman1@comcast.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] ?moving PAF to new computer > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dolly Ziegler" <dsz@bcpl.net> >> >> He has a zip feature on the old one, but even with that cannot get all >> our >> PAF on one floppy, so he's going to break PAF down into (four?) files. >> >> Any advice, please? Thanks, Dolly in Maryland >> > > The backup file that PAF creates is a ZIP file. When that file is too long > for one floppy, PAF will automatically span over however many floppies are > needed. Or let PAF create the backup to the hard drive and then burn that > file to a CD. There is no need to break down your master PAF file into > smaller files for backup purposes. > > Make sure you are NOT using a separate utility (WinZip, etc) to create > your > PAF backups, but let the PAF program do it for you. I would only use > WinZip > for things like zipping a GEDCOM or other files prior to emailing, zipping > and unzipping other archives, etc. Let PAF handle the backup and restore > functions internally. > > Gary Templeman > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > >