Egyptian poet pleads for stolen works to be returned
Egyptian poet pleads for stolen works to be returned The relevant paragraph is
"Mersal's office was broken into in the early hours of June 17 and her electronics and black laptop bag were stolen. Inside the bag were both backup copies of her work -- an electronic memory stick and a black notebook filled with Arabic writing scribbled in pencil."
Presumably your corporate backup is in decent shape. How is your personal backup? Is the backup media, likely CDR or DVDR in a different location than your computer? Are you backing up files other than just what appears in the My Documents folder? For example if you use Outlook or Outlook Express those files are somewhere else. What about other software applications settings that are important? What about family photos? Have you tried restoring a few files from your backup occasionally?
I use my own folder for my files including my email and newsgroup postings. I've been using this for at least fifteen years which long predates Windows 95. Every time I install a new hard drive I have to spend five or ten minutes changing all the defaults in various software products such as Word, Excel and others As my email and newsgroup software use INI files to hold their setttings they do not require any registry settings to be transferred.
Several times a week I create an encrypted zipped file of this folder. Zipped it's about 1.1 Gb. This then is copied to my tower computer if I'm at home. I then burn my last three backups onto a single DVDR and put in a fire resistant fileing cabinet. Frequently I will put that backup in my safety deposit box.
Note that a fire proof safe or filing cabinet isn't actually fire proof. It is fire resistant and has a one or two hour rating. Sure, almost all the time fire fighters will get the fire out in that time. Also note that the one or two hour applies to paper. Not plastic. So get those backups offsite!