Re: In case you're missing your moderator

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> One fine morning in May, my PC's hard disk drive crashed. The

disaster

> struck without warning ("Who would have thought it could happen to
> me?"), and as usual in such cases I wish I'd been a little less
> lighthearted about storing backups of important stuff. It will take

me

> a few days to resuscitate my computer, and still more time to

replace

> the lost data, reconstruct the vital logins and passwords,

reconfigure

> my email browser, etc. I'll do my best to appear on the list from

time

> to time, but I'll be keeping a low profile until things return to

normal.

This is the easy way to do backup: When getting a new computer, save
the old one and connect the two in a LAN (local area network); pairs
of LAN cards are cheap now, and with only two computers all you need
beyond cards is a cable. Switch both on, connect, now doing backup is
just moving files.

Torsten