Is there a way to backup my fonts?

[wood-n-things]

I've been seeing in some other threads fellow members losing their hard drives and all their fonts.

I have so many really cool fonts especially those from sylvia over the years I would hate to lose them.

How do I back them up...TODAY????

Thanks in advance.

[Arcy]

You can copy the font files onto an external hard drive, DVD, etc.

There are more automated backup systems, but if you just care about a small number of specific files that should do.

Also make sure to back up any important documents, photos, etc. that you have created. Applications can be reinstalled, but it's hard to impossible to recreate things.

--Rob

[wood-n-things]

Thanks...I just wasn't sure if backing up the fonts file was all that was required & if they would be able to be re-installed that easily...nothing with computers is ever that easy...LOL

I'll just include that folder when I do my regular backup...thanks again....I do appreciate it.

Another dumb puter question...If I already have a folder backed up on a cd..If I backup that folder again will it just copy the new information in the folder or will it make another complete backup on that cd? Am I asking that so you understand my question????

[KtownScroller]

Originally Posted by wood-n-things

Another dumb puter question...If I already have a folder backed up on a cd..If I backup that folder again will it just copy the new information in the folder or will it make another complete backup on that cd? Am I asking that so you understand my question????

I would think it would make a complete copy of your folder, not just append the new information to the CD, unless it is a rewritable disc. It might depend on the software that you are using too.

As a side note TTF files are a piece of cake, since they only need to be placed into the Windows/Fonts folder to be automatically installed. Saving a copy is straightforward too. Just make a copy and put it in your back-up folder.

[wood-n-things]

Rick,
Thanks buddy....It is backed up.....

[sawdustus]

I recently took the advice of a friend who makes his living in the information storage business and bought Seagate's 1 terabyte external drive and a back up program called Norton Ghost. It automatically backs up my entire computer every three months and new material every week or at some shorter interval if you wish. It can also back up when you use certain programs. After rebates from the Staples Rewards programs it ran less than $120.

george

[KtownScroller]

Originally Posted by sawdustus

I recently took the advice of a friend who makes his living in the information storage business and bought Seagate's 1 terabyte external drive and a back up program called Norton Ghost. It automatically backs up my entire computer every three months and new material every week or at some shorter interval if you wish. It can also back up when you use certain programs. After rebates from the Staples Rewards programs it ran less than $120.

george

Can't beat a ghost backup George. When I worked in a large hospital a few years back, we had three styles of Norton Ghost images on hard drive. If a computer crashed we replaced it with another to keep the user going. Once back in the office we checked out the broken down computer and if it was a software issue we simply reinstalled the ghost image to the messed up machine. When the next user had a problem, he/she got the computer we just re-imaged. And on and on it went. No user was down more than 1/2 hour. You just can't imagine how many computers are in a hospital and how many users abuse their machines. It was a fun internship and an interesting job.

[unixpro]

Originally Posted by wood-n-things

Another dumb puter question...If I already have a folder backed up on a cd..If I backup that folder again will it just copy the new information in the folder or will it make another complete backup on that cd? Am I asking that so you understand my question????

Not a dumb question at all. Many people don't know what actually happens during a backup and, more importantly, during a restore.

If you back up your entire system, you're doing a full backup. This copies all the files on your system out to the backup media. What you have on the media then is a complete record of your system as it stood at the date and time of the full backup.

Backups made between that time and the time you do another full backup are called incremental backups are are only the files changed on the system between the time the last backup was made (either full or incremental) and the time this backup is being made.

When you do a restore, the restore program looks at the backup information, called the catalog, for the full backup and all the incremental backups and creates a plan to restore the system using the most recent versions of all the files, pulling them from whichever backup had the latest copy. For example, let's say you have files A, B, and C. File A hasn't changed at all since the full backup. File B changed 2 months ago, at the time of the third incremental backup, and file C changed last week, just before your last incremental. When you restore the files, the restore program will pull file A from the full backup image, file B from the incremental 2 months ago, and file A from the most recent incremental.

Looking at this, you can see that it makes sense to do a full backup every once in a while, say every 3-6 months, and an incremental between, say every week. The more incrementals you have to go through, the longer it will take to do a restore.

If you're running Windows, you may have Windows backup available. That's not a bad program, and it's free (well, you paid for it when you bought Windows). Otherwise, Ghost is an excellent program and I, too, highly recommend it.

[wood-n-things]

Thanks for all the insight....It is appreciated.