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"Phil Schuman" <pschuman_NO_SPAM_ME@interserv.com> wrote in message
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> > "Phil Schuman" <pschuman_NO_SPAM_ME@interserv.com> writes:
> > > I have several laptops in the house,
> > > ie - like a Dell C610 with a 30GB drive & maybe 20GB used.
> > > I'd like to back these up in case of accidental deleting,
> > > along with the potential disk failure....
> > > They have USB 1.1 (not 2.0) along with Ethernet -
> > > suggestions for backup ???
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> > If they have Cardbus, the dirt simplest approach is get a USB 2.0
> > Cardbus card and a USB 2.0 external disk drive, then go around backing
> > up files to the external disk. Alternatively you could use ethernet
> > to back up files from one machine to another.
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> Good idea on using a card to get USB 2.0.
> I'd like to get a complete disk system backup
> that could be used to restore an entire failed disk, (or even stolen),
> or those single files when we need to grab an old copy.
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> Software also becomes part of the solution - what to use ?
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