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

[Peter Dougherty]

I have a paid Dropbox account, supplemented by Microsoft OneDrive, folders for which reside on my D: drive. All my data (including pictures, videos, music, documents, and work projects) go in there AND get backed up to a local NAS for redundancy. The OS partition (C : drive) including all software, settings, download, temporary and archive folders are backed up using a differential scheme to a NAS device daily, and a full backup to a Passport drive weekly. I use Acronis True Image Home for backup/restore software.

All my logs are backed up multiple places for safety, however due to the structure of both my DX logger and N1MM+ Contest Logger, they have to be run from a non-cloud folder, so extra care is taken in both cases.

I'm less worried about the OS and software; those can be reinstalled easily enough over the course of a few days (albeit with lots of swearing involved), but the data, all of it irreplaceable, has to be stored in Dropbox (meaning a copy exists not just in the cloud but on the hard drive of every computer I own that's connected to the account).

 - pjd

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To: Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com>
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] <Long & OT> Data protection and recovery techniques

I backup into the cloud. When I get a new Mac, it restores automatically. 

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> On Jun 13, 2020, at 10:46 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> Being a Mac guy, I use "Time Machine". I do test it every once in a 
> while when I recover a file, but having been in the computer industry 
> for my career, I am generally careful enough that I don't have to 
> recover files. (Knock on wood.)
> 
> I have the largest disk I could find at Costco as a backup disk sitting on my desk.
> 
> The real test comes when I buy an new computer and restore the entire backup to the new machine. That has worked through several new computers. The one time it didn't work, the old backup was so many no-longer-supported levels back, that the new machine didn't recognize it. However, with Time Machine, if you open the backup folder on the backup disk, you can dig down to a complete file system image that can just be copied. I like backup systems that are simple and don't try to do irreversible magic.
> 
> The other dimension of backup is several offsite disks. One is at a house nearby, and another is on the other coast. Whenever I travel to those locations, I make a backup. If everthing here goes up in smoke, I do have some recourse.
> 
> 73 Bill AE6JV
> 
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