Top Spin wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:50:54 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:


Top Spin wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:16:53 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:


Square Peg wrote:

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:43:06 -0500, metspitzer
wrote:

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:29:20 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:


metspitzer wrote:

I have been using Yahoo's calendar for years and I love it. Anything
I need to remember is there permanently. I keep up with doctor's
appointments, flu shots and med refills. I use it for car scheduled
maintenance, and I also use it to log major appliance purchases.

I have asked Yahoo for the following two features more than once, but
it seems to be falling on deaf ears.

Some of my meds of the past were based on a 28 day schedule instead of
30. I can think of a few more things that also use days instead of
months. I wish you could get a reminder for x amount of days instead
of weeks or months.

Another feature I would like to see is the option to attach a scanned
receipt to a day so I would have warrantee information at my
fingertips.

Just thinking out loud. If more people find a need for these
features, more may suggest it to Yahoo.

MS Outlook calendar will handle most schedules, and you aren't dependent
on, nor putting your personal info on someone else's system.

No, but then I am dependent on me to back up the data. A flu shot or
the last time I got a water heater is not exactly CIA kind of stuff.

If you aren't backing up your data, all of your data, then either it
isn't worth anything or you have more serious problems than keeping
track of how old your water heater is.

I use Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com/). For $50/year, it will
back up all of the data on your PC over the internet to a secure
location. It does it in the background, dynamically. If you
accidentally erase a file, it will restore it in a minute or two, It
keeps multiple versions of files so if you want the version you had
yesterday, you can probably get it. The data is not in your house so
if you get robbed or there is a fire, earthquake, flood, whatever, the
data is safe. It's cheaper, faster, and safer than DVDs or tapes.

There are other online services. You really ought to get one of them.

I'll never trust my data to some online service.

Unless you are one in a million, the online service is far more
reliable that you are.

DVDs don't really have adequate capacity for full backup purposes, and
the few tape media that do have the capacity are way too expensive for
home use.

The two most viable media for home off-site backup are either the
portable 2.5" HDDs, or flash media be it USB drives, SD cards, etc. At
least two "units" of this media in rotation, one on-site to be updated
and one off-site in a safe deposit box gives you pretty secure backup.

One other possibility is using remote mirroring / replication between
two locations, say between friends homes. Locate one of portable HDDs at
each person's house and each replicates their data to their private disk
at the other's house. The same could work with home and vacation house,
home and office, etc.

Gawd (or gag). You would go to all that trouble just to avoid using an
online service that would save you both time and money? Very few
people will actually follow such a regimen meticulously enough to make
it viable and even then it wouldn't provide dynamic backup. Carbonite
backs up new files within minutes of them being created, changed files
within 24 hours, and I can make it backup instantly whenever I want.

I work in the IT biz managing mission critical systems and data. That
carries over to my home environment where I have more than one UPS and
more than one backup generator. That online service would save neither
time nor money.

Are you kidding? You can do multiple UPS and multiple backup
"generators" for $50/year? You are in the wrong business. You should
be selling those systems. What a joke.

All that aside, 99.99% of home users will not install and could not
maintain such a system. You just made my point. Thanks.

The only point is on your head. UPSes and generators are in no way
required for the backup methods I specified, and neither method I
specified costs $50/yr. My UPSes and generators keep my system
*operational* during power outages, and have nothing to do with data
backup.