OriginalGriff wrote: I run several 4TB USB drives, and do a full image every two weeks, with a different drive each time, and I keep a "historic" 8 or so images on each drive. But then, I've been called paranoid before, so it doesn't bother me... Is it paranoia if you know something will happen? ;P Hardware fails. Software fails. People make mistakes. People do bad things to others. Stuff happens. My strategy: Replace the primary HD every other year to mitigate HW failure Use the old primary HD as a hot swap backup inside the PC. Use old internal HDs as offline storage (got a cable/power supply for $15 USD that turns any HD [EIDE or SATA] into a flash drive). Make system images periodically, when changes to the OS & applications warrant it. Use WinZip to automatically backup certain directories nightly, weekly, or monthly, depending on data changes. Backups include a date/time stamp and are placed on the hot swap HD. Periodically move backups to one of several external HD, and use old internal HD as long range storage. Burn copies of files to DVD on a semi-regular basis. DVD-R has limitations, but it's proof against ransomware, the media is cheap, and it's easy to store. One valuable feature of zip format is that it's extremely easy to pluck a file out of a backup. While system images are complete restores if a system is hosed ... it's not always easy (or possible) to get single file out without doing a complete restore. [A former employer got burned on a proprietary backup format so I avoid them.] Flash drives are cheap and easy to use, but the media is volatile, so I don't use it except as very temporary storage. Am I winning the paranoia contest??? :laugh:

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Yes, but to be fair, malaria isn't really anybody's fault - most RTC's are. And we are getting there: malaria is the worst now, because we have eliminated smallpox - which was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century, and had been merrily slaughtering humans since we caught it from a rat around 40,000 years ago. And the ones it didn't kill it blinded, disfigured horribly, and / or crippled for life. There is a lot of effort and money - some of it ours, thanks to Bill Gates - going into eliminating it. But these things do take time, sadly. Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...