Re: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Ben Rubinstein wrote: > Thanks for the reminder, Ralph, and glad you indeed had backups. > > On which subject... my top tip to friends, family, and even casual > acquaintances is *Backblaze* network backup. They also publish very illuminating hard drive reliability reports ev

Re: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
What I did working for a large Church that did a lot of video post production and audio archiving, is I set up RAIDs in other buildings for backups. We could handle a fire in a building, but not a meteor strike. :-) Bob S > On Mar 19, 2019, at 14:01 , Stephen Barncard via use-livec

Re: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
ode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reminder, Ralph, and glad you indeed had backups. > > On which subject... my top tip to friends, family, and even casual > acquaintances is *Backblaze* network backup. > > It's not a substitute for local and off-site direct backups. I'm

Re: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Thanks for the reminder, Ralph, and glad you indeed had backups. On which subject... my top tip to friends, family, and even casual acquaintances is *Backblaze* network backup. It's not a substitute for local and off-site direct backups. I'm sure that as professionals in an IT-rel

RE: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Clarence Martin via use-livecode
artinz.com Subject: RE: BACKUPS !!! Ralph, thanks for this reminder. I think that backups are very important. I don't have a big or even little client base but I have had to restart, and rebuild many things on my computer over the years. The loss of data is a very memorable event to computer users.

RE: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Richard Gaskin==>I had a similar issue many years ago, and since then storage prices have dropped, along with the price of cloud services, so now I'm almost obsessive about having not only multiple redundant backups, but of different kinds. I now agree with you. I had my VMs on three sepa

Re: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
use-livecode wrote: >> Just a reminder... On Win 10 my 2 TB Raid 1 array using 1.3 TBs containing >> all my data, 3 dev VMs and all my source code was corrupted. It took a very >> annoying day to replace HW(controller) and recover data/VMs from my backups. >> All is back

RE: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Clarence Martin via use-livecode
Ralph, thanks for this reminder. I think that backups are very important. I don't have a big or even little client base but I have had to restart, and rebuild many things on my computer over the years. The loss of data is a very memorable event to computer users. A little story, if you don&#

Re: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2019-03-19 17:59, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: Just a reminder... On Win 10 my 2 TB Raid 1 array using 1.3 TBs containing all my data, 3 dev VMs and all my source code was corrupted. It took a very annoying day to replace HW(controller) and recover data/VMs from my backups. All is

Re: BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sorry you had to experience that. A sobering reminder for all of us. I had a similar issue many years ago, and since then storage prices have dropped, along with the price of cloud services, so now I'm almost obsessive about having not only multiple redundant backups, but of different

BACKUPS !!!

2019-03-19 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Just a reminder... On Win 10 my 2 TB Raid 1 array using 1.3 TBs containing all my data, 3 dev VMs and all my source code was corrupted. It took a very annoying day to replace HW(controller) and recover data/VMs from my backups. All is back with NO data loss. As it has been said here before "

All Your Stacks Backups Are Belong to us

2016-04-01 Thread Alejandro Tejada
of this book still includes a floppy disk or call your Librarian asking about it. Could you help us in this search? Many, many thanks in advance! Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/All-Your-Stacks-Backups-Are-Belong-to-us-tp4702931

Re: Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

2015-12-29 Thread Mark Wieder
On 12/29/2015 02:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: 2 is "No such file or directory": Double-check your path and you'll be good to go in no time. Check filename capitalization as well. -- Mark

Re: Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

2015-12-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: >> What are the permissions on the folder? What do "the result" and >> sysError() tell you when called immediately after the line that >> fails? > > I have tried various permissions, especially 755 and 777. Whenever practical it's generally useful to avoid 777, as that makes the fil

Re: Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

2015-12-29 Thread Lyn Teyla
s new path set the defaultFolder to tSavedDefaultFolder -- other stuff -- do your writing to "irev/backups" here Lyn ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Re: Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

2015-12-29 Thread jbv
> jbv wrote: > > Strange things happen : on a first on-rev account, I have a directory > > and sub-sirectory as follows : irev/backups > > For months, I have a script in irev that writes temporary files in the > > "backups" sub-folder and then de

Re: Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

2015-12-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: > Strange things happen : on a first on-rev account, I have a directory > and sub-sirectory as follows : irev/backups > For months, I have a script in irev that writes temporary files in the > "backups" sub-folder and then deletes them, and everything works fine.

Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

2015-12-29 Thread jbv
Hi list Strange things happen : on a first on-rev account, I have a directory and sub-sirectory as follows : irev/backups For months, I have a script in irev that writes temporary files in the "backups" sub-folder and then deletes them, and everything works fine. On a second on-rev a

RE: Upgrade to Lion - backups

2012-05-31 Thread Ralph DiMola
I may be old school but in my data centers I do the following: 1) Raid arrays for local disks so no disk failure will either stop production or incur data loss. 2) Either rotating off-site tape backups or raid disk swaps of current data will take care of water/fire/wind. 3) Rotating tape

Re: Upgrade to Lion - backups

2012-05-31 Thread Tim Jones
And ... what do you do if part of your failure instance includes a lack of network connectivity? No way back from that one. Just saying... Tim On May 31, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup systems > like Carbonite, and b

Re: Upgrade to Lion - backups

2012-05-31 Thread Bob Sneidar
OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup systems like Carbonite, and by the time you pay as much as a 2 tb drive with enclosure would cost, you could have paid for a 5 year subscription to Carbonite. 5 years is as much as you can expect a drive that is used for Time Ma

Re: Upgrade to Lion - backups

2012-05-31 Thread Jeff Reynolds
bob, alternate drive is for redundancy if a drive were ever to poop out and I keep one off site or in a firesafe if here as well for the theft/fire issue. I learned this thru a friend who had a very redundant backup system. only problem was not good about offsite and there was a fire in the o