Computer Backups

People ... [are] looking for someone to make wise decisions on their behalf. (Larry G. Jent in The Upper Room Disciplines - 2006, 15 August)

Awareness of my own limits has helped me set realistic goals. (Sefra Kobrin Pitzele, One More Day, 15 August)

I have sometimes been wildly despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to "be alive" is a grand thing. (Agatha Christie in Courage to Change, 25 August)

Nonsense renders us downright miserable. ... We cannot realize true happiness when we entertain nonsense in our hearts and minds. (Iyanla Vanzant, Acts of Faith, 26 August)

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You can never have enough computer backups. It's almost certain at some point your computer will fail. There's no way to predict what will go wrong. The hard drive might stop working. The display might go "blue." Some circuit inside the machine might go bad. The clock battery in a laptop might go bad and be very hard to reach. Devise a backup plan and follow it. You can back up to thumb drives. You can back up to CDs or DVDs. You can backup to online backup services. You can use some of your free website space for backup. If you do genealogy learn how to create GEDCOM files and use that as well as the genealogy programs backup command thus creating two different kinds of backup. The main thing is to keep copies of the information you want to preserve outside of the computer. I speak from bitter experience.

Mr. Dickie