Aziz,

You may want to look into Maxtor's new solution, it's an exernal hard drive,
available in USB 2.0 or FireWire, it uses powerful
backup software with the unit, and upon pressing a BIG button on the
external drive sitting there on your desk, the software starts up
and starts backing up your data to the drive. There are numerious reviews
on this new drive from Maxtor, and all give it thumbs up.

http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/external/personal_storage_5000/index.htm

Price is a bit heafty at this point, but it's a great drive. It essentially
gives people who don't want to worry about backups a very easy way
to do it, - just press the button whenever you wish and it backs up data
automatically.

Yes, the software is VERY flexiable and you set up the parameters you
want.......... check their site for info, the actual software is available
a separate purchase if you wish from the company that makes it.

I have 2 external 100gig drives that I bought over at a local
computershop, - just regular hard drives, and what I did was buy 2 external
boxes
for the drives.... www.lavalink.com - I got the boxes for $119 each..... one
USB2.0 and the other is a FW box.

Here's the link to the Kazan ( USB 2.0 box )
http://www.lavalink.com/products/usb/prod_kazan.html

Takes about 10 minutes to open up the box, put the HD into it, and then
attach the cable, screw it together and away you go.
USB 2.0 is backward compatible to the pathetic USB 1.1 standard also.

Anyway, if you are in the States, those boxes are very very inexpensive, if
you are a do-it-yourselfer....

I love the USB box, as I take it on trips to Mtl, and can take unbelievable
amounts of data with me in this small box.... and everybody
has a USB port..... ( even if they are usb 1.1 )

hope that helps.

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aziz Peregrino-Brimah" <aziz@azizavenue.com>
To: "Dreamweaver Talk" <dreamweaver@blueworld.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:03 AM
Subject: OT: Backing Up Your Hard Drive


> Being that web design is a big part of my livelihood
<cough>income</cough>,
> my computer is *one* (not *the*) of the most meaningful things to me right
> now. All of my Dreamweaver site info is on it, expensive software,
> important documents, files and "stuff" are on it, and I'd hate to lose any
> of it. How many of you back up your hard drives quite often? How do you
> go about it? Do you have an external hard drive and make regular backups?
> What software do you recommend for doing this? What is the best way? I
> want to have a backup because computers are man made and are susceptible
to
> malfunction.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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