ItDontMeanAThing
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Best advice I ever received about backups was: Count the number of your external drives containing up to date backups. Subtract 1. Respond appropriately.
Note to self: Do not update to win10....
Best advice I ever received about backups was: Count the number of your external drives containing up to date backups. Subtract 1. Respond appropriately.
+1Best advice I ever received about backups was: Count the number of your external drives containing up to date backups. Subtract 1. Respond appropriately.
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I did once have my backup drive die, just stopped working. Luckily my computer drive was still good. Now I use two separate backup drives. One is backed up daily, the other weekly. Am I paranoid? Most definitely yes.
I lost my computer hard drive and the backup hard drive within an hour of each other. That week was fun.
Files that I care about are on 4 devices or more: laptop or desktop PCs, two Windows servers, a Buffalo NAS, an Iomega NAS, and perhaps another USB drive.
Ridiculous? Yes, it surely is. And I have not kept up the synchronizing between them. Darn! I want to be just a computer user, not running IT for the household. Ridiculous! And people think all this stuff is fun?
Imoldernu, have you checked your old CD's? Maybe you used to burn backups onto CD's like I did, back in the days before external hard drives were affordable. I have no idea whether or not they are still readable, though. And in my case, I think I tossed those ancient backups when I moved this summer.A side effect of this Windows 10 problem has become a "fun" project for me. The problems led me to look through my hoard of computer"stuff"... going through the antique section of my garage and pulling out old computers to play with while pomdering the next move.
No. I think the time I spent moving files about could be better spent doing something else. And then, because I lost track of what I store where, I had to run an app to scan all the devices to make sure they match. That takes a lot of time, because creating another copy is done with a few mouse clicks, then letting the machines grind on it for the next few hours. Trying to find out later which is what takes a lot of time.
Oh, this photo is reported as being different between two storage places. Lemme see. Ah, I rotated one copy to portrait mode, while the other is still in the original landscape form.
I hate to be so paranoid. I should not have to be.
Update...
Still have one computer running windows 7.
The other two are now disconnected and awaiting guru son, though I am not optimistic.
No, it just takes time, and I'd rather spend my time doing something else. Much of my hardware is a collection of oddball peripherals, and the hours sitting there loading and configuring software get old fast.Any software can be re-installed either from disk or download, and I don't regard software configuration as a very big deal.
It might be prudent to take a look at the SMART parameters on a drive before going forward.The Windows upgrade popup has been nagging me to go for it. I already made a full backup of this Win 7 laptop, but do not think I am going with this now. Prior to this, the upgrade software has already made a couple of botched attempt to download 2.7GB worth of stuff, and it does not give me confidence. The tales of other posters did not give me confidence either.
It does not look I would gain much with Win 10 to make it worthwhile. I may do it when I get bored with nothing else to do. I would be able to restore the disk image easily, so that minimizes the risk.
The darn software experience is different for every installation. The software is getting way too complex with all different permutations of hardware and add-on software, MS lost control of it long ago. You would think in the digital world with 0's and 1's, things would be predictable, or at least repeatable. Hah! It's like cancer treatments. Every patient has a different response. But why get treatments if you do not have cancer in the 1st place? I'd better stop now before I give Apple users more ammo.
No, it just takes time, and I'd rather spend my time doing something else. Much of my hardware is a collection of oddball peripherals, and the hours sitting there loading and configuring software get old fast.