garym;662516 Wrote: 
> And by the way, for backup, I don't even use the vortexbox backup
> method. Once it is running, on my LAPTOP, I simply point to the
> vortexbox network drives as drives and can copy to and from those
> drives. So in my laptop, I select all the music files within the
> Vortexbox system in windows file explorer, select COPY, then PASTE them
> to a USB drive that is connected directly to my laptop. Nothing could be
> simpler. Just takes a bit of time with about 70,000 files.
Whilst very helpful, this is an illustration of the potential
complexity of a solution that I would have thought most of us could do
without.

Why would I want to stream my mere 14,500+ files (around 320GB) across
my network when all I should need to do is plug a drive straight in? 
Frankly it would never have even occurred to me to do so, let alone via
my vintage laptop.  I'd also want an incremental system which avoided
re-writing all those files for just a few changes.  My understanding is
that Vortebox has such a feature, but it can cause problems with USB
drives.


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PasTim

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