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RobG

RobG Report 22 Feb 2010 22:48

Jillian,
I think Mike is referring to a ClickFree drive. Brilliant bit of kit. Literally you plug it in and it does everything else. You can even set it to remind you in case you forget to plug it in!!
Different sizes available (that have different capacities and can remember different PCs - if you have more than one PC) from Amazon or QVC (and others too).
Highly recommended!!

Rob

Jilliflower

Jilliflower Report 22 Feb 2010 22:17

So, Heather, does an "external hard drive" only back up or what? And is it removable ie to put on another computer? And if it's connected to your computer wouldn't it crash at the same time if one went down?
Sorry to sound dim
Jill

Heather

Heather Report 22 Feb 2010 22:12

I was thinking of getting an external hard drive - but I do have dells internet back up, my FTM can also be backed up to dvd or the internet but I am tending to use ancestrys tree more and more now as its so easy to find details and then merge them immediately and also to find contacts. I dont think you can back up ancestrys tree?

Jilliflower

Jilliflower Report 22 Feb 2010 22:10

Oh Mike, I wish you wouldn't talk about me and my computer!! lol
What pluggy in thingy are you talking about? You don't mean a USB pluggy in thingy do you?
(sigh!)
Jill

Michael

Michael Report 22 Feb 2010 12:35

It is worth repeating the value of backing up your researches regularly.Someone once said that backing up your computer was the thing you were going to do the day after your computer fried! Not being a computer techie I have one of those units you just plug in to your computer and it automatically does the job of backing up with no fuss!

Mike S

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