Dan,

It was an external 'network' drive. It started making funny noises right 
after we had a blackout. A lot of problems w/ blackouts this year.

I always had a problem getting the network drive to connect. I don't 
think data was lost, just that I cannot connect to it. Regardless, with 
everything else going on I did not get to getting another external in 
time to back-up what was supposed to be the back-up to the computer with 
drives too small to hold all of what I had collected. A good deal of it 
was burnt from CD's, my own or from the library. It is the time 
investment that I lose.

I could invest in a leisure computer with drives large enough to hold 
all my crap... but I hate having to go through all of that conversion 
stuff for a computer that usually works just fine for what I need.

As to the business side of things, I back up to two separate 300 gb 
external hard drives. Remembering to back up is fun, figuring out where 
the stuff is that needs to be backed up is even funner.

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Becker, Dan wrote:

>You might also set aside a couple hundred for an external hard drive for
>back up purposes having now learned your lesson, as everyone does at
>some point or another.
>

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