I was thinking along the lines of Task Scheduler being able to schedule a back-up process using some form of macro or whethe there was some piece of, preferably free, software that offers this process. At the end of the day I am inherently lazy/forgetful/indisciplined and know to my cost (when my hard disc crashed) what losing data with no back-up means!! Thanks for all the info to Lanny. That helps me a lot.
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