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-related field we all have all those in hand. And for those with just a laptop rather than a big raid array etc all the operating systems now make it trivially easy (and cheap) to plug in a little USB drive and be backed up. But our less technical friends and family may just not have got round to it yet; and if they have - especially with a laptop - they may not remember to plug the backup drive in very often.
There are lots of network backup options of course - I could never get round to setting it up for my family's machines because there were too many options to choose between, and surely I should go one of the free setups between computers... etc. Too many options, result inertia.
What makes Backblaze fantastic, in my opinion, is that they've cut through all of that, reducing to the absolute minimum the effort and choices required. Go to https://backblaze.com, click "try it for free", enter your email address and make up a password. It downloads a little installer - you run that and you're essentially done.
They bake your email/password into the installer so you don't have to do anything else. After a while they'll email you to tell you how it's going; eventually they'll email to invite you to give them your credit card if you want to keep going. There is a control panel, there are options, there are other groovy features - but if you never know about or touch them you'll still be getting backed up.
There are also no plans to choose between: it's $60/computer/year, regardless of how big (or how many) the drive(s) attached to that computer.
Backblaze are very clear that this shouldn't be your first- or second-line backup. They're right. But if I ask my spouse or child when they last plugged the backup drive into their laptop, I know the answer will make me cry. The fact that Backblaze will have kept running to the last minute they closed the lid is my sanity clause. When bad things inevitably happen - and of course it will fall to me to deal with it - I will be able to rescue their undeserving asses!
I don't want to give you an affiliate link because I'd rather you got backed up than doubted the purity of my evangelism! If you're all covered, good for you. But if you're not, or if your cousin, colleague, or chiropractor look like they need a clue - I think this is a very small amount of money to increase peace of mind.
Ben On 19/03/2019 16:59, 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 back with NO data loss. As it has been said here before "Raid is not a substitute for backups". I have multiple copies with at least 1 off-line(crypto locker/power surge) and 1 off-site(fire/theft). I don't use any cloud backups. Why? MySpace lost 12 years of user data last year. Although cloud backup reliability is high it's not high enough for me to bet my business on not to mention how long it would take to download 1.3 TBs. Although all my Mac data is an SMB to the Win Raid I still use Time Machine on the Mac so I don't need to re-install components needed development. Stay vigilant my friends. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
_______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
