Topic: Safe Mode Wont work?

[Simon]

I have to admit, when I do do mine, it takes half a day, but then I can forget it for another few months.   

[Rik]

That's a lot of data you stand to lose.

[Simon]

That's a lot of data you stand to lose.

Yes and no.  My data doesn't really change all that much, except for emails, of course.  If I download anything, like a music file, or a program, etc, it (the installation file) goes first to my secondary hard drive, then another copy is made to my external drive, so I always end up with two copies anyway.  The rest of my system doesn't change all that much from month to month, so if I were to instigate a routine like yours, Rik, I would more or less be backing up the same data each time, which seems a bit pointless to me. 

What I could do with is backing up my emails, and finding a way to synchronise all the emails from my main PC and my laptop to a central backup point.  I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I haven't really given it all that much thought. 

[Rik]

If you use Outlook, then Migo Sync will do the job, Simon, or there's SynchPST - which I use to synchronise across my three machines.

Good backup programs only copy files which have changed, of course. On average, that's about 300 on my machine, so it doesn't take that long.

[Simon]

It's Thunderbird / Sea Monkey on both machines, Rik. 

[Rik]

You could look at network-attached storage (NAS) and point TBird at the central disk, rather than the local one.

[Simon]

Mmm.... 







































 

[Rik]

Was that a definite maybe, Simon?

[Simon]

I think I understand what you mean, but wouldn't that mean I would have to have two machines running whenever I wanted to access mail?

[Rik]

No, the NAS would run off your router, and be available as a network drive to any connected machine. I doubt TB supports networking, so you would only be able to access the mail from a single machine at a time.

[Simon]

OK, well now I'm completely lost, but it's late, and it's bedtime! 

[Rik]

NAS is just another device plugged into the router, and can be accessed as you would access another computer.

I doubt, but am not sure on this, that TBird is designed to be run as a networking app, so you wouldn't be able to have multiple copies of TBird working with the central set of data files simultaneously. However, when you checked and replied to your mail from one machine, if you then used a second machine later, it would have access to the current data set.