I just found a neat backup program called Winrar. It is a shareware program ($35 registration, 40 day trial) available on download.com. You can specify what files to backup and tell it how large to make the backup file. I tell it to make the files 620MB so they fit nicely on a CDR. I NEVER use CD-RW; out of the ten disks I had, all of them have failed. I unzip all downloads to a seperate directory, then delete the zip unless it is a file that I paid money for (I always keep DAZ's *.exe files). If the file does not have a good discription, I make my own readme file and try to include pictures if possible. Once I have a nice collection, I burn them to CD. I have two hard drives, one with just Poser and Bryce (20GB) and another drive for Windows. Using Winrar, I back everything on the Poser/Bryce disk to CD at least once per month.

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