A word on backups - remember that no backup is any better than the storage site for it. If it's stored in the same location as the original, it will be destroyed in the same fire. So make backups of your computer files or any important documents you may have - but store them somewhere else - take them to your office - your mother's - your babysitter's - anywhere! Part of my job prior to my first retirement (obviously not a taker!) was disaster recovery for a multimillion dollar computer system. We ran backups every day for every file and they were immediately shipped offsite to another building of our's. For my current shop, we run backups daily and whoever is handy takes them home. It's simple - just get them out of the building where the original is! And one more thing - (ok then I'll hush) - scan any photos to files and take them too. And take pictures of your house - furniture - silver - jewelry - everything! Thousands of Katrina victims wish they had! This is something I still need to do because I live on the ocean and will have to evacuate someday too. Bev In a message dated 1/12/2006 1:09:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: 2. If hosted on a professional hosting service there are (hopefully) tape backups, but those too are subject to problems and may be missing, not made, or damaged in writing. Further, if there is a fire, probably both the disk drives and the backup tapes are lost. I've too often lost a client's web site to a disk failure only to find the host's backups were bad or non-existant.

Just a word of warning. If you take pictures of your home & belongings with roll film, KEEP THE ROLL OF FILM in a safe place. Don't give it to a developer! They will have not only pix, but your name, phone # and/or address! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Fw: [OHPICKAW] Re: CD's >A word on backups - remember that no backup is any better than the storage > site for it. If it's stored in the same location as the original, it will > be > destroyed in the same fire. So make backups of your computer files or any > important documents you may have - but store them somewhere else - take > them to > your office - your mother's - your babysitter's - anywhere! >