[Elecraft] <Long & OT> Data protection and recovery techniques

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Backblaze and Time Machine.
73 de David, M0XDF
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> On 13 Jun 2020, at 23:40, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> And, do any of you ever check the backups to make sure they really have anything there?  In the olden days of reel-to-reel tapes, the number of backup tapes in the library that were actually blank often exceeded the number of valid tapes in the library.  Lots of scrambling when you needed that tape.
> 
> 73,
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
> On 6/13/2020 3:31 PM, Jim Miller wrote:
>> Backblaze here
>> 
>> On Jun 13, 2020, at 6:11 PM, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 6/13/2020 12:11 PM, kevinr wrote:
>> 
>>> The tool I use for this third method of data protection is a command
>>> built into Linux but available to Windows and Mac users too.
>> My regular backup program is NovaBACKUP PC from NovaStor.  It is a
>> commercial program that I have been using for many years on all my
>> computers, making a daily incremental backup  and a weekly full backup
>> using external drives for storage of the compressed files.  It has a GUI
>> that permits restoration (both overwrite and write elsewhere) of files
>> and folders.  It has saved my backsplash several times in the recent
>> past.    There is a linux version called NovaBACKUP Data Center that is
>> distro-independent.  (No, I don't own stock in NovaStor.)
>> 
>> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
>> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
>> 
>> From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
>> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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