What Are You Doing Right Now
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
That is not a backup, it is a copy. It is also totally not how backups work.
It's correct to say it's no longer a backup once there is only one copy - the copy on the USB stick. For one to have a true backup, you'd have to have at least two copies (a copy on two different USB sticks).
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@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Ah, there it is. I was thinking it wouldn't work for some reason.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
That is not a backup, it is a copy. It is also totally not how backups work.
It's correct to say it's no longer a backup once there is only one copy - the copy on the USB stick. For one to have a true backup, you'd have to have at least two copies (a copy on two different USB sticks).
No. Making a copy of the data is part of a back up but it is not a back up. Ever.
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Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
I'm sorry.
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@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
having a moral issue because I am going to have to convert my laptop to a coding machine, since my custom desktop doesn't have the space, it seems. Probably better anyway, to make me more mobile, but it's more efficient for me to basically reformat it, since it's been so slow. I just have a lot of sorting to do of pictures and music on the device. It's been my primary mobile media system.
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
Maybe something like Google Drive or Amazon Drive or Dropbox would make sense for you.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
I'm sorry.
LOL - Was fully expecting that from Scott.
Hey free tix, and I wanted to see it anyhow, even if it sucks.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Ah, there it is. I was thinking it wouldn't work for some reason.
CrashPlan should work on Linux.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
having a moral issue because I am going to have to convert my laptop to a coding machine, since my custom desktop doesn't have the space, it seems. Probably better anyway, to make me more mobile, but it's more efficient for me to basically reformat it, since it's been so slow. I just have a lot of sorting to do of pictures and music on the device. It's been my primary mobile media system.
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
Maybe something like Google Drive or Amazon Drive or Dropbox would make sense for you.
I'm a big fan of Amazon Cloud Drive... even though they've capped the storage available to customers.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Duplicati and Backblaze B2. Weather it makes financial sense you'd have to figure out as it's a different pricing model. It's what I've been using for my personal stuff.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Duplicati and Backblaze B2. Weather it makes financial sense you'd have to figure out as it's a different pricing model. It's what I've been using for my personal stuff.
B2 Is double the cost of crash plan for me
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Duplicati and Backblaze B2. Weather it makes financial sense you'd have to figure out as it's a different pricing model. It's what I've been using for my personal stuff.
B2 Is double the cost of crash plan for me
Yep, not a good choice for you!
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
I miss Christian Bale Batman. The highlight for me maybe Cyborg
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I try to choose my words carefully, as I love clarity in speech. I think Sage 50 Accounting Quantum is one of the worst applications to support. The Pervasive SQL database is one of the most fragile things ever developed.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
Someone gave me a full bag of hot garbage today which was also free
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
That is not a backup, it is a copy. It is also totally not how backups work.
It's correct to say it's no longer a backup once there is only one copy - the copy on the USB stick. For one to have a true backup, you'd have to have at least two copies (a copy on two different USB sticks).
No. Making a copy of the data is part of a back up but it is not a back up. Ever.
By definition, a backup is an additional copy of data. So long as there is more than one copy of data, it's a backup. Once your "backup" becomes your only set, it's no longer a backup and is now your original data.
I'd like to take it further and suggest a backup is not only a copy of your data, but a usable or restorable copy of your data.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
Someone gave me a full bag of hot garbage today which was also free
I feel myself being channeled.
