I have back up Zips for each family of shells cataloged.   I have set up
separate files in Access for each family.    I keep this back ups up stairs in a
fireproof box - (downstairs could flood since we are on the water in Florida.

"Thomas E. Eichhorst" wrote:

> The deal about the zip drives is you can use them for backup and to access
> your files.  They are very fast, its like having another 100meg hard drive.
> As a backup they are really a bit limited to special files and not an entire
> system like you can do with a tape (although they come with a handy little
> program for spanning disks).  The importance in all of this is to select
> some knid of back up system.  Re-entering thousands of shells into a
> database may be fun to some but is not something I wish to do.
>
> Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA

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Jim and Bobbi Cordy
of Merritt Island, Florida.

Jim Specializes in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells

Bobbi in Shell Creations