[AccessD] System Image Failure

[Rocky Smolin]

I guess for me having the system image in the cloud is not as important as
having it on an EHD. I'm less concerned about theft or virus attack than
having a way to image the drive back to a new HD (or SSD in this care) in
case the drive fails.

R


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James Button via AccessD
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure

Hi,

Re backup volume - I'm considering the monthy backup and then the months
daily incrementals.
Lots of development and maintenance facilities on the system.

However as indicated before - those going to use cloud backup need to
consider the restore time and effort needed to get back their system? Apps?
And data from the backups they will have posted to the cloud For me - I'd
probably not need to have the incrementals from the system image - Just the
full backup from major app changes (maybe 3 a year)  and the incrementals
from the data.  MS can reupdate the OS with their latest image, retaining
the settings from my restored old backup.  



Connection being online all the time is a matter of what the cloud backup's
processing requires
So the online all the time consideration would be a matter of how the
facility
you (or I ) get actually work


My use of Spideroak backup is for my personal stuff needed for resetup of my
environment.
I do not run the service from system startup, just when I will be updating
those
files, and then I quit the facility
It will run catch-up on files updated while it was not running.
Also - the ongoing backup is of the changed blocks of the files - so
effectively
an incremental changes set. and not the complete file in each set.  


Note - Onedrive 
with a 50Mb link runs about 3GB of upload a day seems to be MS throttling,
at
their end, or maybe the app they installed on my PC, and is not reliable  -
manual drag-n-drop mode
Sync is a is even more of a pain 
So no use for automating an upload of the monthly backup -  let alone the
daily
incrementals

JimB



-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Rocky
Smolin
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 5:02 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure

Being semi-retired I don't have the volume of backup you have. So it doesn't
need to be on line all the time. Monthly system image would do for me.  For
the daily stuff Google Drive is doing the job. So upload speed of a system
image is not a concern - just start the monthly image and let it run.  My
Norton Ghost total backup of the C: drive is about 88GB.

r

-----Original Message-----
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James Button via AccessD
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 8:31 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Cc: James Button
Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure

Backblaze -
Crashplan - about the same cost for the unlimited 1 month free? trial)
Spideroak for 2GB free 

Basic consideration -
Do you need the PC to be online at all times for the backup to work Can you
stop and start the facility manually and haver it 'catch-up' - or does it
have to be running from system startup

Encryption and facility to sync to other PC's - when they connect What
happens if a folder is removed from the list of 'stuff' to be backed-up How
is the backup to be managed

And - Speed of the backup as well as effect on the system of 'sync' if
there's a few large files to be backed-up.

It's about time I reassessed the options for cloud backup of my system - I
expect to be looking to include the folder where the OS partition backups
are placed That will be - an average of maybe 12GB a day for the main
working system during the busy weeks of the year.


JimB  


-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Rocky Smolin
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Image Failure

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  


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