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OLDNY

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:12 pm

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If I lose Windows XP it is just as easy to do a reinstall, plus I no longer have any bugs in my OS, or am I nuts?

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OsirisX

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:13 pm

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OLDNY wrote:

That is why I back up online to Backup Solutions who put all my programs, music, pictures and files, except Windows XP, on 12 servers located in twelve different locations. I have had to restore twice from them and it was a breeze, didn't even have to be at the computer. thumbsup

Thats pretty cool, I didn't even know that that kind of sevice was available.

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OLDNY

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:34 pm

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Yep they charge quarterly by how many GBs you backup. If you only backup files it is really cheap. I pay $40 every 3 months but as I said I backup all my programs, music, pictures, Windows XP files, and everything else on my hard drive. Search under backupsolutions.com to get all the information.

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OsirisX

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:52 pm

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OLDNY wrote:

I think $40 is alittle out of my buget for now, considering I'm still trying to get cable internet. LOL

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OLDNY

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:11 pm

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I think it is as little as $8.00 for three months. Again depending on how much you backup, but it is a great service. Here in NYC Cable Internet is $49.95 a month and that is way over priced. mad

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imnuts

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:50 pm

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everyone says how they have disk images of their os drive or other data. How much space does the image take up?

I would make an image of my drive because windows always gives me problems after a little while and it would be nice to make a disk image of the drive when things are working but i don't have much space to store stuff and it would be nice to have full drive image (its an 80gb drive with about 65gb full) but i dont know where to put it if its going to be more than like 10gb

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OsirisX

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:56 pm

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It really depends on how much stuff are you trying to back. Most imaging utilities like ghost compresses the image so that a backing up a 10g hd might only take 5g of space.

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OLDNY

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:56 pm

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You could always get an external hard drive to use for backing up. I have an Iomega 80GB HDD and it will more then do the job for you. Do you mind me asking, do you ever get rid of anything?

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OsirisX

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:00 am

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Who? me, or imnuts?

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OLDNY

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:07 am

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LMAO, No I mean imnuts lol