I'd suggest to remove the stick. And insert it only when doing backup.
Reason: cyber resiliency. Ransomware could destroy content of both your
primary HDD/SSD and backup device.
And it's worth to have two (or more) devices. And round robin.
I did it.
My backup space is IMHO huge - approx. 70GB. So I use regular HDD in
external case, USB attached.
However incremental backup takes approx. 4-5 minutes. Yes, I have a lot
of pictures, PDFs, etc. But I do not modify majority of these pictures.
The most of time spent for backup is checking directiories against
content change. (Of course it's scripted).
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 21.01.2022 o 16:12, Carmen Vitullo pisze:
indeed, that's why I still use this Desktop, but my hard drive is
still a 1tb spinner :(
I have my USB stick loaded all the time and run incremental backups
daily. my last PC had a disk controller failure and I ALMOST lost all
my doc/pictures....
and NO - I'm not going to any cloud :)
Carmen
On 1/21/2022 9:05 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
A home computer is a device with a comfortable keyboard, a decent
pointing device and a large* UHD monitor. Of course, a 2 TB or larger
SSD wouldn't hurt.
* FSVO large that grows every year.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Our company PC's and Laptops are also disabled, but I was making a
point, albeit poorly, to be careful with USB sticks these days.
What's a home PC these days? My only laptop is old and hasn't been
booted in years. iPads and iPhones and Watches are the rage in my
house. 😊
Bob
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for me Bob, I'd have to download on my home PC, USB's are disabled on
company PC's and Laptops :(
Carmen
On 1/21/2022 8:47 AM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote:
I hope you only plug that USB stick in your own PC.
Policy here is that it can get you fired if you plug it into a work
computer. Just ask the Iranians.
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My regular warning to download the all the pdf files of all the
manuals, people!
You might not have external internet access when it all goes
sideways. In fact, that is an extremely common scenario, in which
you would want, very bad, access to all the crummy, slow, wrong-link
infested crap that is an absolute showcase of how not to provide
documentation, or build websites using active content, for that
matter. That mainframe would be still online of course, and
reachable, provided you have a direct Telnet 3270 link to it, and no
‘stepping stones’ on deplorable technology. Or webserver based
emulators.
Books are even better of course, but not everyone has the space.
My usb stick with manuals is very well maintained, and I have
generational copies of that. That stick, and the readability of the
pdf file on a modern high res screen is a showcase of modern
technology, the website is not.
Best regards,
René.
On 21 Jan 2022, at 15:21, Carmen Vitullo<cvitu...@hughes.net> wrote:
I have to agree, back in the early days development of a index
page was intended to be simple, provide some wording, and some
links to where you want to go, mostly due to performance, the
faster the page loads the better, no glitter, pictures or
unnecessary icons.
the only tools we had back in the early 90's was a C program one of
my team members write to convert DCF/SCRIPT to HTML (thanks to Mike
Myers) ! otherwise it was all hand coded.
Carmen
On 1/21/2022 8:02 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
It's not just IBM. There seems to be a race to the bottom in web
page design. Glitz is more important than, e.g., ease of use,
performance, reliability. Take entry and validation of, e.g.,
credit card numbers, e-mail addresses, names, ZIP codes; it is bog
standard to not tell the user the required format and to reject
valid characters.
Not that "everybody else does it" is a valid excuse.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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The "new tools" are neither as reliable, functional or available
as those the are replacing.
I have been sayig this for the last 10 yrs (or more).
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How many online systems have IBM put out there now ?
Just when it's all seems stable it changes and we go around again.
I could mention the stacks of manuals I started with that never
went down :-) but think of the trees.
Damn ! Am I that old ?
I'm gonna download the pdf collection for now.
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