Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done

From	TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done
Date	2012-04-21 22:35 -0500
Message-ID	<9vhcjmFs7eU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)

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I recently spent some time with a person who although a Mac user for 
about 20 years had never performed a backup of his system but finally 
decided to do so. His thought was to do a backup once a month but I 
convinced him to do one late each evening. I had him install 
SuperDuper! to backup to a newly purchased external hard drive. The 
choice of SuperDuper! over other alternatives was simply that it is the 
one with which I am most familiar. Everything is now running fine.

This incident was by no means the first time I have helped a person set 
up a backup routine. My curiosity is what is it that seems to make 
people not realize the importance of regular backups?

-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2012-04-21 22:35 -0500
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-04-22 05:27 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-04-21 22:58 -0700
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 08:31 +1200
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 16:12 -0700
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-22 17:57 +1200
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2012-04-22 07:51 -0500
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 08:31 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:42 +1200
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 06:47 +1000
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:32 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 13:30 +1000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-22 12:19 -0400
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 06:50 +1000
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:39 +1200
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 16:21 -0700
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:47 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 18:58 -0700
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 18:48 +1200
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 18:38 +1200
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Michelle <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-04-22 18:21 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Koralatov <usenet@koralatov.com> - 2012-04-22 23:24 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-23 16:26 +0200
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Sara <saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-04-23 15:52 +0100
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-24 07:32 +1200
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-24 11:18 +0200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 00:47 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-26 18:59 +1200
            Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 19:14 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-26 11:20 +0200
            Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-26 20:24 +1000
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2012-04-22 14:44 -0400
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-22 13:17 -0700
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 06:55 +1000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-22 17:42 -0400
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2012-04-22 20:26 -0400
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2012-04-22 21:48 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 18:59 -0700
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-04-22 18:23 -0400
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Koralatov <usenet@koralatov.com> - 2012-04-22 23:22 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-23 16:43 -0600
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 00:54 -0400
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-26 18:51 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-26 06:59 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-27 09:31 +1200
            Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-26 21:37 -0400
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-26 18:47 -0700
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-27 21:26 +1000
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done David Spencer <spencer@panix.com> - 2012-04-27 14:08 +0000
                Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-27 15:26 +0100
                Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-27 16:12 -0400
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) - 2012-05-08 03:25 +0000
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-26 11:24 +0200
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 08:31 +1200
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Koralatov <usenet@koralatov.com> - 2012-04-22 23:28 +0000
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jdear64 <jdear64@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-23 10:56 -0700

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