Do you backup your hardrive?

[John Farrar]

Off topic somehwat but if you do not backup your hardrive then you should. Using Acronis True Image, there are others of course, to create an image of my hardrive every day, it was brought home to me today as to how useful that is.

I had created a catalogue of my pictures which took over two weeks of work. Today, I had to uninstall/reinstall PE4 because of a problem I was having with it. That deleted all of my catalogue information.

Using my backup image, within 2 minutes the catalogue was back as it was so saving another 2 weeks of work.

If you never bother with backups then now is the time to think seriously about it. You have been warned.;)
Have fun
John

[Wendy]

Hi John ...

Does an uninstall and reinstall delete the catalogue :confused: ... I thought I had read that it didn't.

Wendy

[John Farrar]

Hi Wendy
It did in my case so I was glad to have the backup.:)
Cheers
John

[Wendy]

Hi John ..

Thank goodness you had backed up :)

Wendy

[troush]

Uninstalling PSE 4.0 should not have deleted the catalog. Hmmm. Yes, we back-up. Not every day, but whenever I do a lot of work with the photos, I do an incremental backup using Retrospect.

[Hamlet 77]

When I upgraded to PSE 4 I lost all my PSE catalogues... BUT when I reinstalled PSE 4, cos there seemed to be a couple of bugs, I was able to keep my PSE 4 catalogues intact....... Never did find my PSE 3 ones... probably still swilling round my hard drive somewhere.... unloved, unnoticed and taking up space. that's life I suppose.

[Sonch]

Hello guys,
Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/) really rocks.
Every month I create several backups: of my OS partition, backup of the partition with progs and apps, and at last my partition for photoes and other important data.
Recently my drive suddenly died. But I was able to restore every thing to the new HDD from DVDs, where I keep the backups. So I didn't lose anything.

[Yno]

I was using the trial version while awaiting receipt of the retail package. When I received my software, I tried to enter the serial number, but it kept saying it was invalid. So I uninstalled and installed from the CD. My catalog and all the tags I created were still there.

[John Farrar]

Hi Sonch
It was Acronis' True Image that I use for my backup. I highly recommend it.:)
Cheers
John

[Foxhound]

Ditto! Acronis has saved my bacon on a NUMBER of occasions. I highly recommend it to anyone who's considering buying a disk imaging program. Amazon has loads of praise from Acronis users.

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