[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers

[joseli Walter]

I rarely shut my computer down, so I have my antivirus run every night at 
midnight and update once a week at about 2 in the morning.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers


> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> 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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