I recently purchased the Western Digital WD ShareSpace Network Storage System. It has 4 1TB Hard drives in it in a Raid 5 configuration. If one drive fails I can replace it with another one without losing any data. I lost a hard drive about a year ago and decided that I was not going to ever risk losing data again. For me personally backing up data from one single hard drive to another single hard drive was too risky. I did have to save my money for awhile before I could buy it but it has been very nice addition. Trey -----Original Message----- From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Elaine Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:28 PM To: txgen Subject: [TXGEN] backup solutions Hello fellow TXGenWebers I have been looking for a good backup solution for my hard drive. Heaven forbid I should lose all my county info & TXGenWeb info in a HD crash. Today I was given a few good options for this problem and I thought I would share with you. Of course, free is my kind of idea for any solution.......... #1 - FileFort Backup Software <http://nchsoftware.com/backup/index.html> (free) - comes highly recommended as being user friendly. It will backup your critical data to virtually any type of storage media including CD, DVD, Blu-ray and remote FTP servers. Works on Windows Vista/2008 2000/XP/2003 #2 COMODO <http://backup.comodo.com/> (free) - backup files or folders anywhere on your computer, network, DVD-RW, CD-RW or FTP server. Works on Windows Vista/Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or later)/Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 or later) For MAC users: #3 Time Machine <http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html> (free) - It is built into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac --- digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Then there are some good online backup offers that are free. One of the most well known online backup services that still offers free accounts is Mozy's Free Backup Service <http://mozy.com/> - offers you 2 GB of storage space. Compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista, as well as Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. Another free online backup service is iDrive <http://www.idrive.com/>. - offers you 2 GB of storage space. You have access to automatic and manual backup options, true archiving, versioning, mapped drive backup, continuous backup options and web-based backup management options. Works for both Mac and Windows users. Hope this helps some of you save your info if you should, heaven forbid, have a system crash. Elaine -- I'd rather look for dead people than have them look for me.... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message