Re: Thank Goodness for Backups

["ABLE_1" <royboynospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

Congrats on the backup save.  Good job.

Now to answer the last portion of your post.  Depending upon your specific
desire this may work for you or not........................

I use http://allwaysync.com/?a=1  and it works great.

And the best part is that it's FREE!!!!

Give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

Good luck.

Les




"Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I use the 2004 Contractor Edition of Quickbooks for all my inhouse
>accounting.  It works great.  I also run a network drive for backups.
>Mostly its so I can access technical manuals from anywhere, but I also
>backup my accounting onto it.
>
> Yesterday my main accounting computer crashed.  Actually I am sure its
> just a Windows error as I can boot with one of my special tools CDs and
> explore the file structure.  Windows just keeps rebooting over and over.
> Anyway, I grabbed a spare computer off the shelf, loaded my Quickbooks,
> and restored from my backup in less than 20 minutes.  I was able to
> invoice the jobs I needed to, check data, and do a bank deposit, and I was
> good to go.  I bought a couple reconditioned XP Pro work stations on the
> cheap last year for spares and front office work stations when I realized
> how much Vista sucks, and that some of my critical applications won't run
> on Vista.
>
> No I just need to figure out how to get this "new machine" configured for
> my dual head monitor card.
>
> I have my Quickbooks setup to do an on drive backup everytime it shuts
> down, and a daily early AM backup to my network drive.  Its a standalone
> network drive, although I imagine if you have enough faith in Windows you
> could just use another PC for it, and set it to auto reboot every day to
> prevent the Windows memory error from locking it up.  I would sure like to
> figure out how to get that autobackup on shutdown to be rotued to my
> network drive or another external drive, but there does not seem to be
> anyplace to configure that.
>
>
> --
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> The guy who makes the final decision
> on who we do business with.
> Bob La Londe
>
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