From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/28/2026 10:45 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:03:47 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   > Dorsey) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Robert Woodward   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Some hacker in southeast Asia took over the site and the site   
   >>> administrator had to create an entirely new website from scratch. We   
   >>> will have to see if the forums will be recreated (and if an archive can   
   >>> be reloaded).   
   >>   
   >> Doesn't ANYONE make backups anymore?   
   >   
   > I do. Grandfather-father-son.   
   >   
   > But it took a while, and several disasters with DOS and NT [1], to   
   > make me fully convinced of it's advantages.   
   >   
   > [1] Back when the "NT Recovery Disk" worked by /wiping out the Master   
   > Boot Record/ so you had to re-partition, re-format, and re-store the   
   > entire hard drive. To this day I use a non-Microsoft backup. They just   
   > can't be trusted with this sort of stuff.   
   ...   
      
   I have three online backups (dedicated internal hard drives) for my   
   office LAN (12 PCs including two file servers) and seven offline backups   
   (external hard drives).  I update one of the externals each week and   
   archive one of the externals twice a year.  All using mirror images, no   
   proprietary backup software.  I use an old copy of Robocopy from Windows   
   XP that just works, no weird crashes like the newer variants.   
      
   My fresh drive backup is 4 TB and takes 48 hours but it grows at 100 GB   
   per week since I never delete anything off the backup drives.  My   
   smallest backup drive is 8 TB but it will be replaced by a 16 TB soon.   
   My next smallest backup drive is 12 TB.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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