backing up files?

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by flashytart

this is going to sound sooooooooo stupid but....i backed my photos up by sending them all to my email addy, i can then access my pics wherever i am

That’s not being stupid.

That’s called, in the modern parlance, “thinking outside the box.”

BT gives you some storage space for just that reason. 10MB I think it is. I seem to remember seeing 10MB being mentioned when I log in sometimes.

With BT you can have up to 5 different email addresses and each comes with it’s own 10MB storage space plus 15MB of free web space. You don’t have to build a web site in your free web space. You can dump pictures in there if you want.

Then if the URL of your web space is http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected] you can view your pictures by typing http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/001.jpg into your browser address field, where 001.jpg is the name of your picture.

Just try this:
The URL is http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected] and http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/nipper.gif

You can progress from that to writing your own simple web site that will show all your pics one after another at the click of a mouse.

[jambutty]

Better still go to this URL http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/pictures.html for an idea of how your slide show might look.

Just click on each picture to go to then next one.

[flashy]

ah thanx for that Jambutty, i'll give that a go tomorrow, to be honest i've never ever used my BT internet account, even though i've been with BT for 2 years lol

[entwisi]

seems like a lot of hassle for a few megabytes when BT digital vault offers gigabytes for nowt if you are a BT total broadband user. Keep your eyes open as they often offe it for 'free' as a special offer to anyone.

there are other services that you can use for this as well. e.g. 110mb.com

[Loz]

Get Norton Ghost, and burn it to a DVD, cheap and easy, backs up your entire PC

[entwisi]

Including all teh bloatware, trojans, viruses, malware.......

Ghost is good but you should do a clean install, put on only teh apps that you really want, set all your configuration as you like it and THEN burn a ghost image( or if your tight like me invest 5 minutes in understanding how to use a Linux Live CD and teh dd command which is just as good). Data should always be considered seperate from system/apps as it makes it far more portable when you buy a new PC etc. IMHO you should put all personal data on a seperate partition so you can ghost/dd just your data. It also means you can splat teh system/app partition with little risk to the data

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by entwisi

seems like a lot of hassle for a few megabytes when BT digital vault offers gigabytes for nowt if you are a BT total broadband user. Keep your eyes open as they often offe it for 'free' as a special offer to anyone.

there are other services that you can use for this as well. e.g. 110mb.com

With BT Total Broadband Option 1 you get 5GB. With Option 3 you get 50GB. No mention of Option 2.

1. BT Digital Vault with 5GB storage included with BT Total Broadband. Auto Backup facility inclusive with Option 3. Opt in required. Service will continue providing it is used at least every 90 days. Conditions apply. Auto Backup currently not Mac compatible.

2. £4.99 a month. One month minimum term. Auto Backup currently not Mac compatible. Conditions apply.

[entwisi]

I've never been with BT but I have a 5gig account

they do offer it out for free every now and then, keep your eyes on hotukdeals.com and teh other 'deal' websites

[Neil]

Originally Posted by entwisi

I've never been with BT but I have a 5gig account

they do offer it out for free every now and then, keep your eyes on hotukdeals.com and teh other 'deal' websites

We need a bargain/freebies forum on AccyWeb so we don't miss out on this sort of thing.

[SamF]

Gmail also has a ridiculously large email storage space - email yourself a .zip or rar or tar.gz and it'll be held on google servers for ya. Easy.