GrandpaTellMe.com makes it easy to backup your site and keep your data safe and secure.  With GrandpaTellMe.com your data is always safe and always available to you.

This guide provides How-To information and Tips to explain how to backup your site and how to access the data on the USB thumb drive you will receive when ordering a site backup.  With a free site from GrandpaTellMe.com you can experience a fun and easy way to keep your family organized and keep your data secure!

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Ordering a Site Backup

The purpose of GrandpaTellMe.com is to help you preserve your history.  As family and friends contribute photos, news, stories and audio clips to your site it is reassuring to know that you can order a backup of the site at any time and receive an electronic copy all of the site data.

To order a site backup, go to the home page and click on the "site backup" link as shown in the picture below:

This will take you to a listing of each group site that you belong to.  To order your site backup just enter the number of backups you want and click on the "Add to Cart" button as shown below:

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What is on the Thumb-drive?

A Site backup thumb-drive from GrandpaTellMe.com will contain the following content from your current site:

• All Calendar Items from your site.

• All News Items from your site with all news comments.

• All Photos from your site including the original versions and all photo comments.

• All Audio files uploaded to your site with all audio comments.

• All History entries from your site with all history comments.

• All Files uploaded to the Files section of your site with all file comments.

• All Member information from your site

All of this will be on the thumb-drive in a format that is easy to navigate with your favorite browser.  Just plug the thumb-drive into your computer.  If you use a Windows computer you will see a prompt like the one below:

Click on the "OK" button to open the backup in your default browser.

On a non-windows computer, you can use your favorite browser to navigate to "html/index.html" to open the site backup.

The home page in the site backup provides complete instructions for accessing your data either using your favorite browser, or using a file interface to directly access the file structure of the thumb-drive.

At GrandpaTellMe.com we believe that the information on your site should be easily accessible to you in the format that you need.  And our site backup feature keeps it easy.

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Tips and Tricks

At GrandpaTellMe.com our goal is to make it easy and fun for people to record and share history.  We provide the site backup feature on a USB thumb-drive to help you preserve your data in a format that is easy to use.  Here are some tips to help keep your data safe.

1. Order a site backup at least once a year.  Regular backups provide security and peace of mind.  GrandpaTellMe.com is committed to keeping your data safe and secure so we perform regular system backups.  For an even greater measure of security order a site backup at least once a year.

2. Keep at least two copies of your backup just in case.  When you receive your site backup, make a copy by loading it onto your computer, or onto another thumb-drive.  You might even consider ordering several backups and giving them as gifts to other members of your site.  Keep one copy in a safe place and use the other copy for scrapbook projects, etc.

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