[AccessD] System Image Failure

Mon Jul 24 10:13:30 CDT 2017

I've been using BackBlaze too, for about a year with 1.5TB backed up. I use
Resilio Sync (free version) to sync  my wife's laptop to my HD, which is
included in the backup. My only difficulty was that the initial backup took
six weeks, while I maintained another backup.

When I did a clean reinstall BB's program could be told that folders were
already backed up, so the re sync took less than a day.

Only a few recoveries needed so far, but I can get an earlier version of a
file in less than an hour, generally 30 minutes.

I like their willingness to share technical information too.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:57 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
wrote:

> Unlimited?  Sounds good. Trustworthy company?
>
> r
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Heenan, Lambert
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 7:06 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure
>
> For general off-site data backups I use BackBlaze. Runs continuously on my
> system in background backing up *everything* I tell it to. For $5 a month
> (yes five) as a personal user I get unlimited storage. I have a couple of
> terra-bytes tucked away there.
>
> https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html
>
>
> Lambert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Jim Lawrence
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 6:52 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure
>
> You can go so far as to create multiple portable hard drive backups and
> save it with some friends. Two TB drives are now very inexpensive...I am
> assuming your requirements are less than that size.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rockysmolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <
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> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 3:38:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure
>
> JB:
>
> Re: photos - that's why I wanted an offsite backup. Two copies of every
> photo (or client file for that matter) on EHDs is a good disaster plan.
> Until the house burns down.
>
> r
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> James Button via AccessD
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 1:17 PM
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> Cc: James Button
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure
>
> I'm in much the same situation
> Just 20 years on my own, almost retired - but still supporting what I
> developed for those clients.
>
> Assuming you have a MS id for your w10 login, you may well have a
> 'personal'
> licence for 10 rather than a specific PC licence.
>
> 100GB for £24 a year seems OK
>
> I'd be considering the storage costs against that of a 2TB drive  -
> replaced every 2 years  so maybe looking for 500GB for that annual cost
> Note - looking for , not yet found!
>
> Someone I know had all the photos from years of his camera work on his PC,
> and despite reminders about backup - including the offer of using my 1TB of
> Onedrive, hadn't bothered with a backup.
> He now has a new PC, and very few of those photo's - and .. for some
> reason is not happy (with me ?)
>
> Re the POP - another annoyance I came across - the recovery drive creation
> wants to access windows install media - and I did the last upgrade online -
> so no media = no recovery drive created.
>
> Your recovery plan - As you say get new PC, get OS  get Office & Apps,
> restore data from cloud.
> I would recommend backup sets from multiple programs - I've been caught
> several times by unreadable backups - especially annoying when the media is
> OK, but the new version of the App or OS will not read the old versions
> O/P, and the old version of whatever cannot be installed.
>
>
> And for others reading this - I have one backup of the OS drive  (all
> partitions) that will not copy from the personal cloud drive it was
> created on -
> Win-7 and 10 will 'open' the container set and extract all the files, just
> when I try to copy the set of 4GB backup files at a set place during the
> copy, report network device error.
> Go figure - because the personal cloud is OK, MS and the net storage
> (cloud) marketer and the TODO backup facility company, and the PC labeller
> company all deny the problem exists.
> That is a cluster of several Lenovo systems running XP, and both 32 & 64
> bit win
> 7 & 10 attached to a Seagate personal cloud were backed-up to the cloud
> device and then the backups were (to be) archived off onto another device .
> I suspect the problem is associated with the setup of the partitions in
> one of
> the source Lenovo systems that was 32 bit XP, then XP+ 32 bit 7
> Unix & windows report the partitions as being in different orders on the
> drive.
>
>
>
> JimB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Rocky Smolin
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 8:21 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure
>
> Good advice re: Microsoft. I've got everything in a Ghost file monthly. So
> I feel pretty secure about that.
>
> Being a lone ranger developer for 30 years I've always been pretty
> paranoid about backups. Less so now that I'm semi-retired.
>
> I have a Google drive and I drop every file I work with there, as well as
> a local EHD.  And all my photos are up there on the Google Drive.  100GB for
> $2 a month.  Seems reasonable.
>
> So if the drive died, I assume that MS would allow me to download the W10
> I registered with them.  I reload Office, some other apps.  Get my client
> files from the Ghost or cloud and I'm back in business.
>
> I'm trying not to over think this thing.  But just got drawn off by that
> pop up that asked me if I wanted a repair drive and an image.
>
> R
>
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