Back Up

[Jean-David Beyer]

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hermit wrote:
| Derek Atkins wrote:
|> Why?
|> Word doesn't have a Backup button.
|> Excel doesn't have a Backup button.
|>
| The why is 'customer driven' and therefore using M$ products is not the
| best choice of comparison here. :)  Removable media is becoming much
| better and easier to use.  How about we call in "quick alternate
| store"?  If "save as" stored the last settings life would be easier.
| Maybe this is one area where software is not keeping up with the
| technology?  Even my phone stores two gig of data now and I always have
| that with me.

I do not understand all this ad hoc backup that people seem to want to do.
I believe in more consistency. I back up _everything_ in my machine every
day (onto tape, but use whatever medium suits you).

I have cron do it in the middle of the night when I am less likely to use my
machine. That way I have daily tapes for 6 days a week, weekly tapes for a
month, and 12 monthly tapes that I keep for a year (those are in the safe
deposit box at my bank in case my house burns down or something).

That way I do not have to remember to back up this, that, and the other
thing because I know it is backed up.


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