[CQ-Contest] Backups

[Jerry Keller]

Jim:
I know of two types of recordable CD's.... CD-W and CD-RW.   CD-W can be
written to one time and getting to be almost as cheap as dirt; CD-RW can be
re-recorded many times, and are somewhat more expensive.  Both can be read
only by drives and programs compatible with the drives/programs with which
they were recorded.  I use Roxio (used to be Adaptec) CD Creator 5.... works
like a charm to back up my entire hard drive contents on 6 CD-W's, which I
keep until the 2nd back-up and then discard. That way I have 2 overlapping
back-ups, one a little older than the most recent.  When I first manually
loaded everything onto my new hard drive it took many hours to get it set up
the way I wanted it.... and it took a real leap of faith to "test" the first
back-up set by formatting the drive and then restoring it with the back-up
CD's.... (Roxio even has you make a bootable floppy that allows you to boot
the empty hard disk, then takes you through the entire restoration
process.... worked OK for me, in fact quite straight-forward... but you will
have to make your own leap of faith, I can only relate how it worked for
me!!)
Good luck,  Jerry K3MGT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reisert" <ad1c at yahoo.com>
To: "Jerry Keller" <dxdog at rcn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Backups


> Where do you get write-only CDs?  How do you restore data from them if you
> can't read them?
>
> :-)
>
>
>
> --- Jerry Keller <dxdog at rcn.com> wrote:
> >
> > After a recent catastrophic hard drive breakdown, I now try to back-up
my
> > entire hard drive periodically on CD-W. Takes 6 CD-W's but they are only
> > 10 - 15 cents each these days.
> > Jerry K3MGT
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dean Norris" <dnorris at k7no.com>
> > To: <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:32 AM
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Backups
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Not necessarily a contest topic but applicable none-the-less.
> > >
> > > My question is ... What do the list users do for hard drive back-up's,
if
> > > anything?
> > > Thanks for the help.
> > >
> > > Dean
> > >
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