Interesting.
The years I used Windows OSs I only had to reinstall one time when my hard drive crashed.
Unlike I read on Linux forums mainly I never had any major problems with Windows OSs.
I have no complaints with Windows OSs.
How do you back up your files?
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The years I used Windows OSs I only had to reinstall one time when my hard drive crashed.
Unlike I read on Linux forums mainly I never had any major problems with Windows OSs.
I have no complaints with Windows OSs.
Yep I'm a firm believer in a good quality battery backup.
Once I got to Windows 2000, it was pretty reliable. I'm the guy who likes to poke, tinker, and tweak, though I do less of that these days. So, I sometimes broke the OS, but that's my fault. Around that era, things were pretty reliable for me. I suppose that'd be the era where I learned what I could tweak safely and what I could not tweak without catastrophic results. In that era, I used all of MSFT's OSes, more or less. They were reliable, but you did need to make them more secure than they came out of the box.
As a tie-in to the thread's topic, I was given a copy of Norton Ghost around that time, and that was my backup solution. It was a disk imaging tool. It was good, so we started using it at the office. Then Acronis came around, and we were moving too/had just recently moved to that when I left. Acronis would let you more easily send your backups to network storage and the client software ran in the background doing incremental backups. It also had a smooth and effective restoration process.
Exactly.
With Linux and Windows any catastrophic failures I experienced was caused my me.
Oh yeah antivirus and malware-bytes was a must have with common sense web habits.
Yep Acronis free is what I used because it was free and affordable.
It appears to be available as a free product for a limited time.
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No guarantee on anything.And what if it fails? What is your backup here?
Like the rest of the electronics of today most are a gamble.
A battery backup is just extra protection a lot better than even the best surge protector.
Surge protectors should be replaced every 2 or 3 years depending on the power surges or hits taken.
Most all electronics in my home are on a surge protector or a battery backup where required.
I was also reminded earlier, but was in a rush, and figured I'll also mention that I was given a beta copy of Norton Utilities 5.0 at a computer convention. It was given to me by Peter Norton himself. There's a slim chance that I still have the disk. I kept a lot of stuff in a storage locker for way too long and eventually had it moved to my basement. I've still not gone through the boxes. I figure my kids can throw it all away when I'm dead. That'll keep 'em busy. They can clean up after me for a change!
Heh. You could go daft.....and backup the backup with another backup because hey? Why not?.....and then backup the backed-up backup with yet another backup because.....well; what the hell? I can, so I will.....and so on, ad infinitum.....etc, etc.And what if it fails? What is your backup here?
How paranoid are you?
You could go on like this forever, y'know? I believe Windows demands the entire drive like it does because all the free space is taken up with "ghost" backups of itself.....
(shrug...)
A pair of separate external backups plus one in the cloud (just in case, like) is enough for me.
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How paranoid are you?
From now on, I will be paranoid about possibility that someone may not get an obvious joke.
And what if it fails? What is your backup here?
A better question would be what if you don't have one and the power goes out a a critical moment? Or blinks on and off?
Sure, the battey backup might fail. But for all the years I've used those, the only time one failed was at power on. Usually, the battery was so old that it wouldn't start.
I have those on my computers, routers, and switches. Handy to stay online when the lights blink or the rest of the house goes dark.
Believe me, I have multiple data backups.
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I do not do backups - whenever I update/upgrade I remaster my drive so I just simply reinstall the OS that is completely updated at least to the date i created it - any files I want to keep goes to an external drive - I do not use the cloud that is just someone's else's computer
Oh, I "got" the joke, all right! I merely thought I'd illustrate just how ridiculous the situation CAN get IF ya let it....From now on, I will be paranoid about possibility that someone may not get an obvious joke.
Mike.
Yup! Better to verify the backup.
Foxclone has a verify feature, which I use sometimes.
Having said this, I don't remember the last time I saw a bad backup.
I DO have a short memory!
I had long-term stability issues with 98. 98SE helped. But, NT and XP were the start where any OS breaks were my own fault.
Heck, I even used ME for a while and that was fine - once it got a few updates. It wouldn't crash prior to the updates, it'd just have weird errors with the hardware I had.
I remember it well. The system came with ME and was my first long-term exposure to AMD CPUs. It had the AMD K6-2. I overclocked it (which did break things) and settled on just shy of 450 MHz (which did not break things). It was also the first Acer that I owned.
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Can you tell us how that is done?
Do you use Timeshift for problems that arise between when you update/upgrade and when you remaster?....or have I misunderstood ?.......(again !)
Absolutely - a big one for the PCs and a smaller one for the network doodads. A laptop (with a functioning main battery) provides some protection in that regard as well - and my daily driver has both (just because of a lack of unused A/C outlets).
Amusingly, when my twins were babies and just starting to crawl, they were fascinated by the pretty green light on the UPS power switch.... POKE! They're in their mid twenties now and to this day I keep covers duct taped over critical switches on UPSes, power strips and the like.
Of course, I have on at least one memorable occasion, meant to reboot a remote computer and inadvertently rebooted the local machine. No amount of protection saves you from yourself, but following good routines can make it hurt less.
Oh you poor thing! Do you realize that, in some small depraved sense, you're actually me?
My Win7Pro(32 bit) system that I've had since early 2010 is nice and stable, but a typical corporate Win7 support guy probably wouldn't recognize it. My coworkers claimed I had "Rocorized" it, but it worked when theirs didn't.
After I broke Win10 enough times trying to achieve the same look and feel, I just said, "No". One of my projects for this week is to take yet another Win10 laptop and install Linux on it - on the internal drive, after a clean wipe, with no more of this baloney of keeping Win10 around in case I might need it some day. Why would I keep an EOL Win10 system around when I have perfectly good WPEOL Win7 system?
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