I have a paid Dropbox account, supplemented by Microsoft OneDrive, folders for which reside on my D: drive. All my data (including pictures, videos, music, documents, and work projects) go in there AND get backed up to a local NAS for redundancy. The OS partition (C : drive) including all software, settings, download, temporary and archive folders are backed up using a differential scheme to a NAS device daily, and a full backup to a Passport drive weekly. I use Acronis True Image Home for backup/restore software.
All my logs are backed up multiple places for safety, however due to the structure of both my DX logger and N1MM+ Contest Logger, they have to be run from a non-cloud folder, so extra care is taken in both cases. I'm less worried about the OS and software; those can be reinstalled easily enough over the course of a few days (albeit with lots of swearing involved), but the data, all of it irreplaceable, has to be stored in Dropbox (meaning a copy exists not just in the cloud but on the hard drive of every computer I own that's connected to the account). - pjd -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of W2xj Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 6:28 AM To: Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] <Long & OT> Data protection and recovery techniques I backup into the cloud. When I get a new Mac, it restores automatically. Sent from my iPad > On Jun 13, 2020, at 10:46 PM, Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> wrote: > > Being a Mac guy, I use "Time Machine". I do test it every once in a > while when I recover a file, but having been in the computer industry > for my career, I am generally careful enough that I don't have to > recover files. (Knock on wood.) > > I have the largest disk I could find at Costco as a backup disk sitting on my > desk. > > The real test comes when I buy an new computer and restore the entire backup > to the new machine. That has worked through several new computers. The one > time it didn't work, the old backup was so many no-longer-supported levels > back, that the new machine didn't recognize it. However, with Time Machine, > if you open the backup folder on the backup disk, you can dig down to a > complete file system image that can just be copied. I like backup systems > that are simple and don't try to do irreversible magic. > > The other dimension of backup is several offsite disks. One is at a house > nearby, and another is on the other coast. Whenever I travel to those > locations, I make a backup. If everthing here goes up in smoke, I do have > some recourse. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz | Can't fix stupid, but | Periwinkle > (408)348-7900 | duct tape can muffle the| 150 Rivermead Road #235 > www.pwpconsult.com | sound... - Bill Liebman | Peterborough, NY 03458 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to > w...@w2xj.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@w2irt.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
