Well your broadband would be not used if you don't backup to their servers :-) machine->machine or machine->HD is also supported!
Graeme On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Anything that involves relying on broadband is an absolute and total no-no > round here. Trust me, you'd have to live here to know what it's like. You'd > only have to listen to Rich explain about my experiences with our shared > Dropbox to know that cloud services are best left untouched around here, > despite the Welsh government spending millions (supposedly!) on trying to > bring broadband speeds into line with England. I know we are not alone in > this, rural areas in England often do no better than here, but I refuse > totally to commit to anything that relies on our > sometimes-slower-than-dialup or "it doesn't work if more than one person in > the same street uses it" cr*p services. > > My son (who's in college) moved from a town centre to the outskirts recently > and experienced a four-fold drop in quoted maximum broadband speed (which > was already a bit pathetic originally as he lived close to his exchange) > with no reduction in cost, the real speed drop seems to be subjectively much > more than that. He relies on it for his online gaming and so on and moans a > lot about how unusable it is now! (at least it works well enough for his > college work I suppose). > > Dilwyn > > -----Original Message----- From: Graeme Gregory > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 4:41 PM > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > >Backups - don't make me laugh. Windows backup won't work with 3TB drives, > >NTIbackup seems to fail 2 days out of 7 regularly. I have no idea how > >complete the backup is because of that and whether it catches up on the > >weekend missed bits during the week. > > > > For backups I use CrashPlan, although its aimed at you paying them to > store your backups it actually supports backing up to another machine or > HD as well. > > For me its been running invisibly in the background for almost a year. > > Graeme > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4040/8354 - Release Date: 10/09/14 > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
