Lost Installation CD

[M.I.5¾]

You don't know my experience level nor intelligence level so you're the
one displaying
ignorance by saying I will find out soon enough and that I have been
lucky.

No but you are providing plenty of clues.

 

[M.I.5¾]

I ALWAYS make 2 copies of backups. One for here at the house, One to keep
at a friends house. Just my 2 cents worth.

What regime you adopt for your backup is entirely driven by what risk you
are prepared to run. I personally use a father/grandfather system. Weekly,
I do a differential backup to the older of my 2 backups. If I need to
restore, I use the most recent. If that didn't work, then I would use the
older backup. I have accepted the risk that I might lose up to 2 week's
data, but as I don't produce that much, this represents an acceptable risk
to me. The grandfather backup is kept in the garage when not in use
(separate building).

In theory, I do 2 full backups monthly, but in practice this is sometimes a
bit lax and can be done up to 2 months later. Again, the risk is acceptable
to me in a home environment.

If I was running a business that depended on the computerised data, this
would be totally inadequate.

 

[M.I.5¾]

It would probably be much easier and quicker just to get rid of the junk.

I rather depends on what the junk is, but generally I would agree.

 

[Unknown]

This entire ridiculous string of posts has occurred simply because I gave an
example of
when the XP CD's are not needed. I.E. re-installing Windows. (Use a backup).
It has degraded to what ifs. What if this what if that.
Some people even make two backups, one to store somewhere else in the event
their home burns down.
I do not run a business, am not paranoid so back up only once. My risk.
I do not care what if this, what if that. I am satisfied and I might add,
I haven't had a problem in the last 11 years.

 

[Unknown]

Only in your negatively thinking mind.

No but you are providing plenty of clues.

 

[Unknown]

I have never had a hard disk failure and when I do, I am prepared with my
backup.

 

[Poprivet]

Sorry, but that's experience and knowledge speaking. You WILL eventually
understand. Your experience and intelligence level are displayed quite
clearly in your words unless you lie, in which case it gets to be an even
worse situation, meaning you might be a troll.

 

[Poprivet]

What regime you adopt for your backup is entirely driven by what risk
you are prepared to run. I personally use a father/grandfather
system. Weekly, I do a differential backup to the older of my 2
backups. If I need to restore, I use the most recent. If that
didn't work, then I would use the older backup. I have accepted the
risk that I might lose up to 2 week's data, but as I don't produce
that much, this represents an acceptable risk to me. The grandfather
backup is kept in the garage when not in use (separate building).

In theory, I do 2 full backups monthly, but in practice this is
sometimes a bit lax and can be done up to 2 months later. Again, the
risk is acceptable to me in a home environment.

If I was running a business that depended on the computerised data,
this would be totally inadequate.

Wise words. I used to do similar except that every two months I gave my
sister a full backup copy to keep and she give me hers.
Now we each have 500 Gig external USB drives and just trade those every
two months. So now it's just a drive swap.

Pop`

 

[Unknown]

I accept the fact that it is/was your experience but knowledge??? We don't
know what caused your bad experience.

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

It never ceases to amaze/amuze me how, when one, logical, correct response
turns up to a post here, how twenty more dummies crawl out of the ether to
go off topic, repeat the same information, and ask totally unrelated
questions of the OP after the question has been properly responded to.

This newsgroup has lost a lot of its effectiveness for that reason. When
newbie sees all that misinformation and irrelevant questions and comments,
he just ends up more confused. I suspect these lazy narcissists don't read
any of the responses but just jump in with their own "looka me ma" crap.

Pop`

Thanks Pop'

My thoughts too!

Good Luck.

 

[M.I.5¾]

I have never had a hard disk failure and when I do, I am prepared with my
backup.

and if you backup is corrupt or unreadable?

 

[M.I.5¾]

This entire ridiculous string of posts has occurred simply because I gave
an example of
when the XP CD's are not needed. I.E. re-installing Windows. (Use a
backup).
It has degraded to what ifs. What if this what if that.
Some people even make two backups, one to store somewhere else in the
event their home burns down.
I do not run a business, am not paranoid so back up only once. My risk.
I do not care what if this, what if that. I am satisfied and I might add,
I haven't had a problem in the last 11 years.

Fine. Then as long as you have identified the risk and accepted it, you
should be entirely confident. The nub behind the string of posts was that
you could substantially mitigate your risk with little investment or effort
by having 2 backups instead of one. But as has been said, it is whatever
risk you are prepared to run.

 

[Unknown]

After doing a backup I always check it. You can go overboard. What if three
backups are corrupt or unreadable.
I don't have millions of dollars at risk and neither does 99% of home users.
One is enough.
Even ten backups are no good if the drive you're backing up is corrupt.

 

[Guest]

I have never had an Installation CD, I paid fot it in the package I got, but
the manufacturers iQon Technologies, hummed and hawed about giving me a
Windows XP installation CD, eventually they said I would have to but it from
them at the cost of £60.00 needless to say I didn't buy it as I was disgusted
withtheur attitude. I believe they use the same installation CD to install on
multiple computers, if not why couldn't they give me the disk for my PC?

 

[Daave]

Unless I'm overlooking something, your reply is quite a non sequitur!