On Dec 12, 2007 2:48 PM, db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While average people have a lot of voluminous but not time critical data > such as digital photos, usually the people's critical addressbook, > encrypted password list, banking, personal biz data, email etc. isn't > that substantial. > > I would think backing up and restoring such online would be > realistically do-able. ? >
Depends on what you mean. 1. If I, as a careful and meticulous user, have identified the most important data on a day-to-day basis, and have a way of backing up and restoring just that data, then I could probably back it up and restore it across the Internet. 2. If I, as a regular user, just backup all my hard drive and don't really know what is most critical - how many of my PowerPoint files at 10-40 MB each do I really need to restore today? - then I probably need to rely on restoring all of it. Then online restore isn't that practical. 3. If I, as a regular user, had something transparently backing up all my data, and could restore on an "as-needed" basis - so that when I click on a video file of my wedding, or on a document, it tells me it hasn't restored yet, but could do so in about 20 seconds (or 1 hour for the wedding video maybe) - then I could do an effective restore over the Internet. Of course, this assumes that I can reinstall the OS and all the applications locally. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
