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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #162 (back ups)

The answer to the backup question is.. ANY backup is terrific if it saves  
you from losing all your data.  All you need do is be able to recover the  
information whether it be from cd, zip drive or floppy (now obsolete).
 
Everyone sets their own limits as to when they back their information  up.  
How much time will it take you to recover everything you have done  since your 
last backup?  If you haven't added anything to your database for  a while, 
maybe not much.  
 
I even have one of those thumb drives that has gedcoms of my ftm databases  
and I am now working on keying in the hard copy of a couple of books that would 
 be impossible for me to find if they were destroyed.  (These are only  
family written books).