Backup help.

I back mine up on the internet. Do you have a private blog or LJ? I actually have a private forum where I post my stuff. Or open a Gmail account and email them to yourself.

Dropbox
This is what I use, it does the job automatically, you have just to write and click on the save button.

I use three method at once. First, I store the backups on two different partitions of my desktop computer's hard drive, for second I also have a complete backup on my laptop and the third one is my back up mailbox. On my part it would be a bit hard to keep more then 120 Gigabyte (All WIPs and all their extensions, i.e. videos and graphic) on a thumbdrive, so I must complicate this a bit. But this one works well. If you have two partitions, make two similar directory to both and copy one to another. If you have two hard drives in your computer, it's even better, because there is a very slight chance that both may fry at the same time. If you have a website, i.e. with "com" ending, you also may use it to store your files there in a hidden directory what only you can use.

Never write onto a thumb drive. Save it on your computer and copy over.

ruckeriii said:

I have two thumb drives that I use to hold all my writing. I make a disk of each completed draft for worst case scenarios. I write onto one and use the other as the back up copy. I have been copying the files from one to the other but that has been problematic. I keep losing work! Can any one point to a good backup utility that I can put on my thumb drive? I can’t get windows to place the backups on my thumb drive or backup just my WIP. Yesterday I tried to copy my WIP over and lost my currant WIP (a novel in the final stages of editing) and the half finished draft of my next novel!

HELP!

Mason

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Actually, you can also use Google Documents, Box.net, or, to back up your entire system with Mozy. You can do this for free and have an allowance of 2GB.

Another way of doing this is going out and buying an external hard drive and backing up your entire computer system.

A more reasonable and cheaper way to do this as well is to just go and get CD-R/RW's and back up your documents that way.

something I do, in addition to placing a backup on my thumb drive, is to e-mail the word doc to myself once a week, just to have a back up sitting there in case I ever need it. A few months ago, my laptop crashed, and having that word doc sitting there in my email saved me a lot of work.

Never save to a thumb drive. It's one of the best ways to lose it.

Karen's Replicator

Allway Sync

Cobian Backup

You're writing about currants? Jelly maybe? *snerk*