What's a good device for my Mum to back up her stuff?
 

She's got a load of recipes on her laptop. They only come to a few megabytes though. She was thinking of using a USB drive to back them up. What do you think?

Email.

zip drive.

Just get her a memory stick. £3.99. Job done.

Dropbox?

Yep. Free to use up to 2GB of storage I believe.

Nice and simple as well.

Yep 2GB free, auto syncing with any local machine(s) as well as being backed up and accessible (privately or publicly) online. I used it to sync my work PC, home PC, back up, and online share files.

Cheapest I guess would be CD's.

Memory stick and/or internet service provider like dropbox or keepandshare. :)

auto syncing with something like dropbox is probably a good idea. You can then keep her username and password safe in-case she blows up her computer one day and you know how to retrieve it.

This all depends on how she connects to the internet though. If it's frequently and not dial up then this should be reasonable option.

For something like a laptop I would avoid the USB stick thing as I'm sure it will get unplugged and forgotten.
If it was a desktop PC then you can do the USB thing or install a spare HDD you might have and I have a batch file to run xcopy on startup that always backs up any new data I made the last time I used my PC.

Floppy Disks. You may need around 4.

A Fleshlight.

Absolutely this... then no need to worry ever again.

A thing where you can store stuff on.



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I got Windows 95 on 25 floppy disks lol

When I read the Thread title, I thought, "Rear view Mirror". http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/laugh1.gif

Raid 1. Set it and forget it.

hard copy, memory stick(s), CD, of site storage, copies on other PCs in the family, etc.
I'd use at least three backups, if it's important to her!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=jycmZH8js0s

Unless the house burns down.