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[Wayne Clodfelter]

A spare hard drive is by far the best way to backup because you can  
schedule a backup on a regular and steady basis. If you leave it to  
manually backing up whenever you think you need to, there'll come a  
time when something unexpected happens and you've waited too long  
between manual backups.
I have been very pleased with two external firewire Mercury Elite  
drives purchased at OWC. Not the cheapest available, but one of the  
things they come bundled with is the OEM version of Intech's  
SpeedTools Utilities. of which QuickBack is an excellent, IMHO,  
backup utility which can be easily scheduled to produce bootable,  
full or incremental backups.
There are freewares and sharewares that also provide scheduled  
backups, but because I have QuickBack, I prefer using it.

On Sep 15, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Samantha Cornell wrote:

> Thanks for the info.  I am struggling to decide between buying an  
> external drive or and external DVD burner.  Both have usefulness  
> down the road, although I can see myself using the DVD burner a bit  
> more for burning video and the such. Yet, the hard drive seems to  
> be a better method of backing up.
>
> I'd love some advice from those with more experience.
>
>
> On Sep 15, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Fabian Fang wrote:
>
>
>> On Sep 15, 2005, at 6:06 AM, Samantha Cornell wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Also, I need to back up.  I have been far too lax with this.  I  
>>> have some clients files backed up on my iPod, but I would like to  
>>> get an external hard-drive and/or DVD drive.  Are there any deals  
>>> out there?  Suggestions on the best back-up methods?
>>>
>>
>> Prices of hard drives seem to be dropping daily.  Dealmac.com is  
>> full of "deals."  Here is their latest round-up on external drives:
>> <http://dealmac.com/artsearch.html?search=external%20drive>
>>
>>
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Regards,

Wayne Clodfelter
wayne at troutnc.com