Post #725414 by Greg_D_R on Thu, Aug 14, 2014 4:35 PM

On 2014-08-12 04:34, Will carve wrote:
Perhaps I should take this to Tec. Central,
but, could you drag T.C. on to a CD or thumb drive?
May be year by year.
Just a thought.

I couldn't even hazard a guess at how much disk space this site uses, but it's not quite as simple as that. This website is a message board, and the program for the message board is on a computer, called a server. That server 'broadcasts itself' so that we can all access it on the internet. One of the other things that the server does, is make automatic backups of the site, probably every week or so. The message board program uses a database, which is like a big spreadsheet, to store all the posts. A large number of those posts have links to images. Some of those images are stored on the server, and some are stored on other computers all over the internet. So, a thumb drive or a CD might not be big enough, and if you did try to copy it by 'dragging it' somewhere, go take a nap, because your computer's going to be busy for a while, and you still would not have the large number of images that are stored elsewhere. The good news is that the backups that do exist, are better and faster than a thumb drive.