Looks like I fried my computer -- Note back up often!

[juggernaut]

Cherry I would wait before you go and buy Ghost. It's a great program but MS offers a back up software for free built right in the OS. It's not the best but for what you are looking to do it will work just fine. You can set up a schedule for the back up. Not bad for free. Also I have looked around for free stuff with a little more options like being able to back up your data to a ftp site, then I found out that most ftp software will do this. But there is plenty of free stuff out there...

[Mattinblack]

Originally Posted by juggernaut

Cherry I would wait before you go and buy Ghost. It's a great program but MS offers a back up software for free built right in the OS. It's not the best but.

Use ghost - unlike microsofts backup its not going to get virus infections that exploit it, a problem I had last year. A good tip for you - instead of using USB hard drives buy 2 or 3 of the half gigabyte datasticks that plug into your USB. Now you mirror critical sites INCLUDING scripts and datafiles if any onto a folder in your hard drive and backup that folder onto the datasticks. Keep one datastick in your house, one in your car and one on your keyring. Programs can easily be re-installed - I have an extra datastick on my keyring that has the install binaries for a graphic editor an html editor, a script 'lint' type program I use and an FTP program, plus a text file that has the registration keys in. Barring nuclear attack I am safe against most things that would still leave me as a person standing.

If the web is your only income (it is mine now) then it makes sense to be paranoid about backups. I refresh my datasticks weekly or whenever I put up a major new site I care about.