[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers

[Eileen Scrivani]

Joyce & All:

Both Louis & I back up about once per month.  It should probably be done in 
our case once a week or every other week.  The frequency depends on how 
vital you rate the information you keep/change/add onto your computer and 
the volume of the info you're dealing with.  This is a personal choice.  We 
used to start the back ups running at bed time and would let it run over 
night.  With newer back up systems it does not take as long.  Maybe you 
could run it during dinner when you will not be using the computer.  Since 
your backup is new & external, I'd expect it might take approx 1 hour to 
run,  This to depends on the size of your hard drive and how much your 
backing up.

IMO More importantly for everyone is the anti virus & spyware software's. 
These should be set to update definitions on a daily basis for both updating 
& scanning for infections.  To ignore either of these is not only 
detrimental to one's self but inconsiderate to those people with whom any 
type of correspondence, frequent or infrequent, occurs since the infections 
can spread & possibly do damage to their computers.  Its easy to set options 
within your antivirus/spyware program to automatically update definitions & 
perform scans on a daily basis.

I leave my computer turned on from the point I wake up to the time I go to 
bed, so there are plenty of time slots to choose during the day to allow 
both of these operations to take place without impacting my working on the 
machine.

Eileen
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Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:56 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers


> This is off topic, but do any of you  have your computer set up to  auto
> backup on a monthly or timely basis?  If yes, how frequently does it 
> backup?
> Does it take a short or long time to backup?
>
> I purchased one of those external drives when I got my computer for
> Christmas and needless to say the drive is still in the box.  I was told I 
> would not
> want it to backup everytime I guess I put the computer on or off, but 
> just
> wondering what others have found to work.
>
> I know this is not crafty, but if we were to lose all our stuff in the
> computer regarding crafts, this is not a happy face here.  I went through 
> that
> loss twice in the last 8 months.
>
> Joyce
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