Computer Software: Backing Up Your Stuff Part 6: Where Is It #2? 1452 Reads
	Copyright (C) Richard Lowe Jr. and Claudia Arevalo-Lowe, 1999-2001 This is the sixth article in a series. To read part 5, see "Backing Up Your Stuff Part 5: Where is it #1". http://www.internet-tips.net/System/backup04.htm  Paint Shop Pro In my humble opinion, Paint Shop Pro is one of the best bargains available on the internet. This inexpensive (less than $100) shareware program provides most of the functions of the far more expensive Adobe Photoshop with a better interface and quicker performance. Paint Shop Pro version 7 has many different features with many different files. The locations of each of the files are explained below. Note that Paint Shop Pro is almost unique in that you can define up to three different locations for each of these features. This is most cool. Tubes - A picture tube is a way to create repeating graphics with different images. For example, you could create a tube of 20 different butterflies. Each time you clicked the tube you would get a random butterfly image added to your graphic. You can create your own tubes and you can download tubes from the internet. They are stored, by default, in the following location. Posted by: ASUService on Thursday, October 14, 2004 Read more...  3976 bytes more comments?

	Computer Software: Backing Up Your Stuff Part 5: Where Is It #1? 1601 Reads
	Copyright (C) Richard Lowe Jr. and Claudia Arevalo-Lowe, 1999-2001 This is the fifth article in a series. To read part 4, see "Backing Up Your Stuff Part 4: Disaster". http://www.internet-tips.net/System/backup03.htm I don't know about you, but I love to collect cool downloads off the internet. I've got thousands of stationary files, desktop themes and ICQ skins, as well as more thousands of screen savers and wallpaper files. Most of these special files are stashed in obscure locations which makes them difficult to back up and a pain to restore. However, if you know where the various applications store their data files, you can make copies of those to your hearts content. Programs such as Second Copy and InSync are perfect for this job, although in a pinch you can simply drag the files to your writeable CD drive. Posted by: ASUService on Monday, October 11, 2004 Read more...  3791 bytes more comments?

	Computer Software: Backing Up Your Stuff Part 4: Preparing For Disaster 1411 Reads
	Copyright (C) Richard Lowe Jr. and Claudia Arevalo-Lowe, 1999-2001 This is the forth article in a series. To read part 3, see "Backing Up Your Stuff Part 1: Software". http://www.internet-tips.net/System/backup02.htm  Okay, picture this ... your computer system has been destroyed by the most recent outbreak of the dreaded typhoid Mary virus. You never knew what hit you. One minute the system was fine. You received a nice email with an attachment which you opened, and boom, your system crashed. You rebooted but it got an error. Now what?   Or you could have mice (the animals) in your house. Mice love to create nests in warm places, and your computer is pretty warm. Just imagine all those little teeth gnawing away on all of the wires ... Worse yet, imagine it rains and a leak appears directly over your hard drive ... or your "friend" spills coffee on the CPU cabinet. I could go on and on about what could happen to your computer. I don't know about you, but I spend more time on my home computer than I do watching television, reading, eating or anything else except possibly working at my day job. When my computer has a problem, especially one that results in a boot failure, I get extremely angry. I feel like I have been betrayed by my best friend. If the system gets damaged, I feel just as much pain as if a good friend went into the hospital. The thing to do is to make sure you are prepared for the worst possible thing that can happen ... total system failure. This is a very difficult task to write about as there are many different ways that a computer can eat itself or be eaten - perhaps as many ways as there are computers. It is beyond the scope of this article to go into great detail on how to make your system totally recoverable. There are many other great resources on the internet and in the documentation that originally came with your computer which will help you prepare. Briefly, though, what you need are the following Posted by: ASUService on Thursday, October 07, 2004 Read more...  4454 bytes more comments?

	Computer Software: Backing Up Your Stuff Part 3: Software 1328 Reads
	Copyright (C) Richard Lowe Jr. and Claudia Arevalo-Lowe, 1999-2001 This is the third article in a series. To read part 2, see "Backing Up Your Stuff Part 2: A Solution". http://www.internet-tips.net/System/backup01.htm  All right, now you need to consider what software you will use to back up your data. Do it by hand - One possible method (which will not work if you are using a tape drive) is to simply copy files to your backup media by hand. This does have some advantages: Posted by: ASUService on Monday, October 04, 2004 Read more...  4442 bytes more comments?

	Computer Software: Backing Up Your Stuff Part 2: A Solution 1454 Reads
	Copyright (C) Richard Lowe Jr. and Claudia Arevalo-Lowe, 1999-2001. This is the second article in a series. To read part 1, see "Backing Up Your Stuff Part 1: The Problem". http://www.internet-tips.net/System/backup00.htm  So what do you do when you have so much stuff on your computer that it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to back up the whole thing on a regular basis? You know that you must perform backups (the world is full of dangers to your computer and it's valuable data), but it's just become technically impracticable simply due to the volume of data. Don't believe for a second that this problem is unique to the home user. At work I manage a staff of computer people which is responsible for about 500 gigabytes of data. In fact, we expect our data size to exceed a terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) before too long! Some of my peers now manage sites which exceed 60 terabytes! Imagine how difficult it is to come up with a backup solution to databases of those sizes! What I decided to do for my home computer system is simple. I separated my backup tasks into small, manageable pieces. These include: being prepared to recover the entire system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Posted by: ASUService on Friday, October 01, 2004 Read more...  7167 bytes more comments?