Now that Terabyte hard drives are so cheap, I have two. What is the best way to backup these drives for long term archive? I'm tempted to just buy terabyte drives as backup, and store them in a waterproof container, but do they do OK when just shelved for long periods of time?

If you put them on shelves for a long time, moisture tends to accumulate on it. You could put it in a waterproof box to make sure that they don't get wet and get messed up. you could also just put the hard drives in boxes along with song moisture absorbing packets. By the way, as Schecky said, use anti static packing to protect the hard drives.

For long term storage. As long as the environment they're in is clean and dry (and not near anything magnetic) they should be just fine. What you might do is take a thin piece of cardboard and wrap it around the inside of the waterproof container. This should reduce the risk of damage if it falls off the shelf, and will also reduce static electricity (plastic is a great conductor). Do not use duct tape one the container (to tape the card board), it becomes statically charged when you tear a piece off the roll. I would create a cushion around the harddrive using a towel, just do it while standing barefoot (without socks).

yes, also make sure you go with good brands, not just cheap ones- in my experience Seagate and Western Digital are best :]

you could always back up a TB on another TB or in two 500s

They do ok. Keep the anti static bag and store it in there.

I would buy more drives, yes.

get you a 1tb external

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I want to know what will happen if I backup my jailbroken ipod to itunes and do a restore on it. I'm doing this so I can update it to the 2.0 version

I understand that the restore will remove everything on it and put it like brand new but will the backup have all of my songs, videos, and everything else in there?

If you back up your jailbroken ipod, nothing really is going to happen. I woudl suggest just to re-jailbeak it with quickpwn and then start over. If you want a non-jailbroken ipod, I suggest that you do not back up you r ipod to uyour computer because that backup may change your ipod to become jailbroken again. I never ried it but thsi is my prediction. I wouyld just jailbreak teh ipod and start a new synch and not with a back up. This is what I did with my Iphone 2g.

Transfer iPod/iPhone/iTouch stuff to computer or recover lost or missing music, backup and restore all of iPod/iPhone/iTouch content I recommend you Cucusoft iPhone/iTouch/iPod to Computer Transfer. This software can keep your iPod/iPhone safety.

http://www.dvd-video-converters.com/ipodconverter/ipod--itouch-iphone-transfer.html

Step by step guide-- How to transfer music/movie from iPod to computer or iPod to iTunes with iPod Transfer?

http://www.dvd-video-converters.com/guide-ipod-to-computer-or-ipod-to-itunes-with-ipod-transfer.html

Also, you can search some other ones:

http://www.ask.com

podtopc.com

and if you ever have problems with your ipod touch, look at this guys youtube channel. he helped me with alot of stuff on my jailbroken ipod no joke. http://www.youtube.com/user/Dinozambas

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I searched the entire internet to backup my files and data,but all I find is downloading things to backup.As my computer is going "haywire",I need to find a place where I can backup for free and it does not need any downloads or extra stuff to add.Any suggestions would be a great help.

you can backup to CD if you have a CD-Burner, but depending on your hard drive size, it may take a bunch of discs. Just find some place off your computer, (like a free website from google for example) to put a copy of your important files. Alternatively, you could purchase an external hard drive with the one button backup feature. Those are really easy, just plug it in and hit the button. Wait. Then you have a backup of any information on your whole computer.

it is a good question.AND i would link u 2 some websites:-

1.[ //4shared.com//]

..................... is good website that can stroe about 5 GB for free.

2.[myotherdrive.com]

............................can store about 2 GB for free.

3.[//divshare.com//]

..........................can store 5GB & can download 10GB for free.

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You can go into control panel on windows XP and use the back up facility it is very user friendly and will guide you through the whole process explaining it. If you decide to upgrade to vista tho, XP back up files have some compatibility issues with vista.

If you are using Norton you can download the most updates databases fro them and store in ur pc or anywhere and just double click it to update ur system. This helps you to reduce you dial up bill. No need for realtime updating.

If you are using other type of antivirus, they may also have such downloads.

Find the file, copy it to a CD and burn it. Or copy it to a flash drive.

BTW, your operating system should never become corrupted. Stop doing what you're doing to corrupt it. (This computer has been running for over 2 years - that's how old it is - without needing to have its operating system reinstalled. I have some computers that haven't had a reinstallation in a lot longer than that - usually never.)

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I searched the entire internet to backup my files and data,but all I find is downloading things to backup.As my computer is going "haywire",I need to find a place where I can backup for free and it does not need any downloads or extra stuff to add.Any suggestions would be a great help.

you can backup to CD if you have a CD-Burner, but depending on your hard drive size, it may take a bunch of discs. Just find some place off your computer, (like a free website from google for example) to put a copy of your important files. Alternatively, you could purchase an external hard drive with the one button backup feature. Those are really easy, just plug it in and hit the button. Wait. Then you have a backup of any information on your whole computer.

it is a good question.AND i would link u 2 some websites:-

1.[ //4shared.com//]

..................... is good website that can stroe about 5 GB for free.

2.[myotherdrive.com]

............................can store about 2 GB for free.

3.[//divshare.com//]

..........................can store 5GB & can download 10GB for free.

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You can go into control panel on windows XP and use the back up facility it is very user friendly and will guide you through the whole process explaining it. If you decide to upgrade to vista tho, XP back up files have some compatibility issues with vista.

If you are using Norton you can download the most updates databases fro them and store in ur pc or anywhere and just double click it to update ur system. This helps you to reduce you dial up bill. No need for realtime updating.

If you are using other type of antivirus, they may also have such downloads.

Find the file, copy it to a CD and burn it. Or copy it to a flash drive.

BTW, your operating system should never become corrupted. Stop doing what you're doing to corrupt it. (This computer has been running for over 2 years - that's how old it is - without needing to have its operating system reinstalled. I have some computers that haven't had a reinstallation in a lot longer than that - usually never.)

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Do you need to run system monitoring for system restore? Is backup the same as monitoring?

Yes and No.System monitoring is way more simpler to use. Backup is the tool that makes one-time (or timed ) copy(ies) of a set of files of your choice (you need to know exactly what you want to save). System monitoring runs automatically and is looking for mainly for system files changes.

Backup is meant to be used to make a copy of your own files, in addition to the system monitoring.

On Servers the backup is used to backup data and system settings to a safe place usualy outside the computer (Tape, Removable HDD).

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I mean, if a 3rd party were to steal your online backup files unencrypted, is it possible that you could try to access the files 1 day, & they'd be gone?

Get an external hard drive and save your files to that and store the drive away from your computer. Then do a daily backup if you add large amounts of data to your system otherwise once or twice a week should suffice.

Anything is possible on the net. I would read the online policy first and question them about data lost. If you are so unsure about the site buy yourself and external harddrive, save your information to that and then place that in a safe location for when you needed.

Yes

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I am planning on backing up my laptop and I have a couple programs that my school installed on it which I can't just download. When I backup my laptop, will it also backup the programs installed or does it only backup individual files?

Depending on the type of backup you're planning on doing. If you're planning on backing up the entire hard drive (create a clone image of it), then all your programs will be backed up. If you are simply backing files, then it's not backing up your programs. In order for the programs to work, not only you have to backup the program folder, you have to backup the system folders, the registry, and any other software/services that the program depends on. Two good softwares for such a task are Norton Ghost, and Acronis.

I am using norton ghost only because I've been using it for so long, and don't feel like learning anything new right now. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/accuse_write?qid=20080407172540AA1iMEi&kid=NbUvWzK0UjRfvxAgBfJP&s=comm&date=2008-04-08+19%3A33%3A01&.crumb=

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I have purchased copies of several television series and some full length movies. I take the movies to work with me to kill time, but I have lost some of the discs. Is there a legal way to make backup copies for my own personal use so that I can take the copies to work with me in order to avoid losing the original copies?

You need to use a software to remove the copy- protection on the DVD.

I suggest you download DVD Decrypter and follow the instructions. The files will be copied onto your computers hard drive. Then you can burn your copy to DVD using Nero or Decrypter

Download DVD Decryptor from

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm

A guide on usuing DVD Decryptor is here-

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/

Download Nero from

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_applications/nero.cfm

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Another good software is DVD43 ("DVD for free"). DVD43 is a small tool that integrates into Windows and overrides copy-protection mechanisms found on DVDs (CSS) and DVD region limitations.

Download from

http://www.dvd43.com/

or

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd43.cfm

Guide for usuing DVD43-

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/#dvd43

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AnyDVD and DVD-Region Free are commercial on-the-fly dvd decryption software which do the same thing but with a few more bells and whistles. Many commercial DVD transcoding software doe not include ripping ability.

Download AnyDVD from

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

Download DVD-Region Free from

http://www.dvdidle.com/

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Guide for removing RCE protection from DVD's usuing IFO Region Free

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Please use these softwares only for backing up your own DVD's and not for any illegal purposes.

I am not 100% certain about this but if you own the original, i think it is legal to make a copy if it is only for your own use.

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Hi,

I need to format harddisk and re-install Windows. How to backup these bookmarks and cookies with Firefox 2.0?

Thx for the guide.

you can put your bookmarks online with delicious and sync them with any computer, anywhere and any time.

why would you want to save your cookies anyway? every website that creates them will create them again and many use them to report on you as spyware.

Open the browser, click file and then click import and export, from there you will be able to save them to a flash drive or another storage device, just follow the steps.

go to 'My Computer' then

click on 'Local Disk" then

'Documents and Settings' then

go to your user profile folder then

'Application Data' then

'Mozilla' then

'Firefox' then

'Profiles' then choose your profile folder then

copy 'bookmarks.html' or the bookmarkbackups folder

*you might also want to copy

signons.txt and key3.db - I think this is for your

saved passwords

Click Bookmark > Organize Bookmarks > File > Export > choose location and save such as on a memory stick or backup drive.

After you reformat, install Firefox then organize bookmarks again only this time choose Import.

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When i search for files using the search button it freezes.

How can i get to my backup files without using the search?

First, make backup for all your personal files before have any crash/problem.

Microsoft do not provide any suitable or trustful solution for backup.

My suggestion for you is try the service Mozy, for online backup, for free:

https://mozy.com/?code=94HW8M

I am using for near 3 years and is very good.

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It's not active and its not pending so what doesw backup offer mean? Thank you very much.

When they are accepting back-up offers it usually means that the offer that has been accepted and is in escrow probably has a contingency, like the buyers must sell another property in order to close on this one. There is usually a time-frame in which all contingencies must be removed, and the property that you are looking at is in the middle of that time frame. So, while they have accepted an offer, they are wanting to line up additional buyers (back-ups) in case the first buyers aren't able to remove the contingencies.

That's when they received an offer and they are waiting for it to be signed. They can't sign your offer but if anything goes wrong with the other they can get back to you. So you would be the "backup".

My understanding is that they have accepted an offer, but of course they want to know who else is interested. Not all accepted offers go to closing for one reason or another. If you want to buy the property, don't be afraid to write a back up offer. After all, you only get to close if the offer is accepted and the other contract falls through.

a backup offer can be a good thing, if it's a property you really like, I have gotten 2 properties with backup offers. you just have to be prepared that the first offer will go through, in this market, the odds are more in you're favor. good luck.

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I want to get two terabyte hard drives. I'm going to use one of the drives I have now for my OS disk and then have one of the new drives for saving media and the second for primary backup of the media drive.

So, my questions are:

Is that the best way to set it up as in, if my media catches a virus or bricks, will the second drive likely be affected?

What would the best software for automatic back up be?

Thanks!

You might want to check out CrashPlan to manage the backups. It can backup data to another drive and take care of it all automatically for you. I have been testing it lately and have been impressed with it so far.

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I feel like saving a backup on Word is pointless because if my computer crashes the originals and the backups will all be gone anyway.

Also if anyone knows of or can recommend a good web based system I can save backups of my files on, I would appreciate it.

In a Word document, click Tools

Options

click the Save tab

clear the box in fron of "always create backup copy."

Remember the X files -- "trust no one"

I keep two backups of important files on two separate flashdrives.

There are failures other than a hard disk crash that can befall you, many of which don't damage the hard disk at all.

For instance:

Accidentally deleting the file.

Accidentally deleting all the text in the file, then saving back into the file.

Having the file mysteriously corrupted (many cases of this here on Yahoo! Answers).

Saving the file in a single bad spot on the disk.

I recommend you leave the backup file alone. It's cheap insurance.

Hope that helps.

If you're talking about the autosave feature, that's not for when your entire computer crashes, it's for when the program crashes in the middle of working. Autosave is one of the most incredibly helpful features for any program and should NEVER be turned off.

And unless your autosave is sucking up valuable resources (you'd have to have a pretty old/not-so-powerful computer to be in this situation nowadays, especially with Word), there's no good reason to turn off a feature like that, even if you don't use it.

Major rule of computing: Don't turn it off/delete/unplug just because you don't KNOW it's purpose. And the same goes for turning something on/running something/plugging something in. I've heard horror stories coming from both of these mistakes.

That being said, if it's still bothering you that much, there is more than likely some kind of feature in some preferences window. Look for Word's general preferences and you could, perhaps, turn the frequency of autosaves to 0, or what-have-you.

But again, I don't advise it.

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I have a lot of media files on my computer, I was wondering if it's safe to use Norton Ghost to backup everything since it takes up less disk space.

Now after I recovered the whole disk partition, will my avi or mp3 files still be accessible?

Thanks.

yep. sure. no problem.

Ghost is traditionally for backing up system drives as it has the capacity to do the whole drive or partition.

I think the issue will be with compression. Media files (jpg, mp3, avi) are already compressed. This means that even if you use maximum compression with Ghost you wont really save much room.

While the files are in the archive, as far as I know they're not accessible (I could be wrong about this aspect though as Ive never tried to access file from an Image)

When you restore the image to the drive or partition, everything should be just as it was when the image was made.

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I'm helping my friend, she has an office of about 7 computers, and one server. I would like to know what would be that best way to implement a backup. I was planning on using an external drive, and use something like windows live folder share so that every time a file is updated on the server it will automatically synchronize on the external drive. her database which is the most important is about 10GB, so using a dvd burner probably would not help. Can you please advice me on this issue.

Thanks

What your doing sounds good, but you need to make multiple backups, What she should do is get a tape drive for her server, than she can do a GFS tape back up scheme. Grandfather Father Son backups are basically every day of the week you back up files(Son) Then at the end of each week everything gets backed up(father), then at the end of each month everything else gets backed up(Grandfather). This allows for you to go back to a specific day when everything was working and do a restore if needed, such as if your network get's infected with viruses or your hardware fails. You'll need a tape drive and 12tapes 6 for the days of the week five for the weeks of the month and and one for the end of the month. Just to make sure you get it, you back up every night let's say you start monday, you would do your daily backup's until saturday, then on Sunday you would do a full weekly backup, and this would continue until the end of the month where you would this time do two full backups, only this last backup would be stored in a safe offsite. It would continue this way. Now of course you could use only three tapes and just have one tape save the changes from the previous day each time, but if it becomes infected too all the changes on their are lost. The first method I listed is called Incremental backups which backs up the changes from day to day and only those changes and removes the archive bit on the files, The second method I listed is called Differential backups and backsup everything that has changed but does not remove the archive bit. These are both standard method's in backups. Also the guy above me is right you may need to consider using raid and either getting SATA or SCSI. I would suggest SATA since it requires the least computer knowledge to use, and then use raid one which is Disk Mirroring. Meaning you have and Identical copy of one drive on the other and when one fails you can keep going(depends on the hardware) without failure, but SATA is hot swappable and can allow for little server downtime that way.

Perhaps you might want to try Time Capsule from Apple. If I recall correctly, it is server grade but not server size, and works with multiple PCs for networking, printer sharing, backups (mac) and wireless connections all at the same time. It is available in 500GB and 1TB versions, and is at an affordable price. Here's the link: http://store.apple.com/1800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/singaporestore.woa/wa/RSLID?sf=wPKD9A7FKXYJ2PCKF&nplm=MB277ZP/A

Please see http://www.lwcomputing.com/tips/static/backup.asp

without specifics, no one can truly answer this - and anyone who tried would be, at least to me, demonstrating their ignorance of IT and backup.

As my page states, there are MANY factors you need to consider.

I use a spare 7 gig 95 laptop running puppy linux for backup.

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The backup lights and turn signals are on the same fuse which pops when you drop it in reverse. Pops so quick, I can't find the problem. All wires are in the original looms, no bare wires I can find. Thanks.

These can be very difficult to find as I did this for a living for a very long time. I read the other answers and the one guy that said wiring in a headlight across the fuse holder will enable you to have a live circuit will help if you know what you are doing. Cutting wires without cause is a last resort and I would never recommend that. To start the short is obviously in the reverse lamp circuit from the neutral safety switch on the side of the trans. to the rear somewhere. I have found that most of these problems reside in the fact that there is usually a trailer wiring package installed either by the factory or by someone else. I would give a long and lasting inspection under the truck where the wiring loom runs the length of the left frame rail to be sure you cannot pinpoint something here. The problems with trailer wiring or other shorts is generally close to the spare tire area. You might have to drop the tire and get into this area to expose it all. There is a lot of mud and crud in here and there have been cases I found that the wires simply corroded together. So do a thorough inspection of this area. Also inpsect the trailer plug if it has one as I have found plugs with shorted pins inside. As you can tell, I believe you have to look and look some more to find your problem. Good luck.

Your going to need a wiring diagram to be able to tell which wire is for your back-up lights. As a licensed mechanic I would rarely go looking for the short in a circuit like this. I would find where the back up switch is located and cut the feed wire there and run a new wire to the back of the vehicle joining up where the wire feeds the lights at the rear. I would of course have confirmed that the short wasn't in the rear light sockets or that the wrong bulb hadn't been installed in the back up light socket.

Wire a spare headlight into the fuse slot for the one that's blowing.It will light up if there is a short. Now you can work on a live circuit a least. Pull the tail lights assemble out as they can be bad for wire rubbing in behind. Other than that it a wire trace to pin point. Did you inspect the bulbs really good as i have had a few bulbs or sockets short inside(plastic sockets are bad for burning out the grounds)If you can unplugged any connection on the way back to the tail lights if the headlight goes out the short is behind that connection. Good luck hope I helped

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I've been throwing a backup ball for years and six months ago my husband started to teach me to throw a hook, saying that it would help my average jump up once I got it down. But I'm struggling with it and my average dropped down to 115. When I throw a backupball my score is usually 13-150. I'm getting discouraged.

Keep hanging in there. Any time you make a change in delivery technique there will be a downturn for a while. Look at what happened to Tiger Woods when he made major changes in his golf swing. He knew the swing he had was for a young man and would only hurt his game as he got older. He started learning the new swing and he stopped winning. Matter of fact he did pretty poorly for about a year. Then the new swing and his game started coming back and today he is back being the power house golfer he was four years ago.

Your husband is teaching you the hook and that good. Although the technique might be good for him, it might not be correct for you. You probably need to get some coaching from another bowler with a good hook technique.

Tiger had to fire his original coach because he did want him to change his swing. Tiger knew what he had to do and got another coach that could help him accomplish his goal.

Here's the best answer I can give, and I'm a fellow bowler. Some people get the mistaken notion that you "have" to throw a hook for some reason. A good buddy of mine has thrown a backup ball all his life and is a better bowler than I'll ever be. He also has a mantel full of trophies. My best advice would be, give the hook some more time, perhaps invest in a pro-style bowling glove that forces your hand into the proper position. But if the hook's not working and you are struggling with it, I'd go back to the backup ball and work on perfecting your technique. There's nothing wrong with throwing it that way if it works for you. In a way, you are still throwing a hook, just from the "brooklyn" side of the lane. Good luck.

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How do you backup Microsoft Money 2001 (from the backup facility within the program) to a fat32 usb Memory stick. It keeps stating load another floppy disk when there is 4GB of space. I've tried re-formatting to NTFS and have the same problem. I have an older USB memory stick and it works fine with that so why the problem - totally confused.

It might be the format of the memory stick?

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