Tenebreaux · Feb 20, 2020

Jon Dor said:
I was backing up to a 4TB external drive each time it was connected. There were gazillions of backups...every 15mins or so...but, sadly, for some reason, it wasn't backing everything up, despite me being sure that was the case. Crap happens...all too regularly in my case... Hahaha!

RAID X is your friend.

Jon Dor · Feb 20, 2020

Tenebreaux said:
RAID X is your friend.

Is that where it "mirrors" everything on the original SSD?

Tenebreaux · Feb 20, 2020

Jon Dor said:
Is that where it "mirrors" everything on the original SSD?

Raid 10 you need four drives. It stripes and mirrors. Closest thing you can get to failproof when it comes to HDs.

kermit_rr · Feb 20, 2020

Super raid is where is at these days lol

tomcat59alan · Feb 20, 2020

I've come across a parallel geek forum

Tenebreaux · Feb 20, 2020

tomcat59alan said:
I've come across a parallel geek forum

Guilty as charged.

Rubberknees · Feb 20, 2020

Datatek said:
In my day it was standard practice with business computers to finish the working day with a back up.

We always used the grandfather, father, son back up method. I know lots of businesses do

Jon Dor · Feb 20, 2020

Rubberknees said:
We always used the grandfather, father, son back up method. I know lots of businesses do

That one's RIGHT over my head! Sounds incestuous =~[

Rubberknees · Feb 20, 2020

Jon Dor said:
That one's RIGHT over my head! Sounds incestuous =~[

Does but easy to explain . Son is daily or weekly backup. father is weekly or monthly back up grandfather monthly or 3 monthly back up. Chose what order you want. You end up having multiple back ups of data and free up space for new work
Confused you soon will be

holidaychicken · Feb 21, 2020

tomcat59alan said:
You'll get @holidaychicken excited Keith.

If anyone needs an expert on backing up you get my vote mate

Jon Dor · Feb 21, 2020

Rubberknees said:
Does but easy to explain . Son is daily or weekly backup. father is weekly or monthly back up grandfather monthly or 3 monthly back up. Chose what order you want. You end up having multiple back ups of data and free up space for new work
Confused you soon will be

Haha..will be confused!? That ship sailed!

Datatek · Feb 21, 2020

Rubberknees said:
Does but easy to explain . Son is daily or weekly backup. father is weekly or monthly back up grandfather monthly or 3 monthly back up. Chose what order you want. You end up having multiple back ups of data and free up space for new work
Confused you soon will be

The way it was done was 3 discs used in rotation, the days back up always done to the oldest one. We had smart software that only backed up files that had been changed on the day, so the backup did not take too long.

Jon Dor · Feb 21, 2020

Datatek said:
The way it was done was 3 discs used in rotation, the days back up always done to the oldest one. We had smart software that only backed up files that had been changed on the day, so the backup did not take too long.

My backup setup was incremental I believe, but, it appears that I had NOT set everything to be backed up.

Grrrrrr · Feb 21, 2020

Datatek said:
The way it was done was 3 discs used in rotation, the days back up always done to the oldest one. We had smart software that only backed up files that had been changed on the day, so the backup did not take too long.

Just use ROBOCOPY these days.

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