What Are You Doing Right Now

scottalanmiller

I have an on site customer meeting in a few hours. Should be nearby, but with the rain, it is not. Going to take an hour to get there thanks to Dallas drivers.

JaredBusch

Heading over to someone's house to support their home stuff. This is the only person I do this for.

dbeato

Doing some soccer coaching

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Attempting Ubuntu 18 on my ROG

Ours is working.

This is the first version I could get it working on.

scottalanmiller

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Attempting Ubuntu 18 on my ROG

Ours is working.

This is the first version I could get it working on.

We have been through several versions at yhis point.

scottalanmiller

I keep wondering if Deepin would work.

dbeato

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I keep wondering if Deepin would work.

Although it is not the same, I have Deepin working on 2013 iMacs and they work well.

scottalanmiller

Back home after taking my daughter out for froyo.

travisdh1

Just finished updating tickets from yesterday. Now catching up on stuff here. If the rain slows down, I may go walk around the fair if the rain slows down here (it's not going to stop as we get the remnants of that storm.)

scottalanmiller

Just got the kids off to bed.

hobbit666

Family Backups
Question 3 kids in school and a Mum

All use computers all have file/pictures etc.
They all need Office and some way of "backing up" their files.

Would you be happy enough to just use Office365 yearly/monthly plan with OneDrive and use that as a Backup/Storage (so if the computer fails the files are still there).

Or would you "double" up and use something like BackBlaze to do a backup of all the data as well?

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Family Backups
Question 3 kids in school and a Mum

All use computers all have file/pictures etc.
They all need Office and some way of "backing up" their files.

Would you be happy enough to just use Office365 yearly/monthly plan with OneDrive and use that as a Backup/Storage (so if the computer fails the files are still there).

Or would you "double" up and use something like BackBlaze to do a backup of all the data as well?

Really depends on what the stuff is. You've got two copies already, so unless it's like critical financial data or something. Probably not.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Family Backups
Question 3 kids in school and a Mum

All use computers all have file/pictures etc.
They all need Office and some way of "backing up" their files.

Would you be happy enough to just use Office365 yearly/monthly plan with OneDrive and use that as a Backup/Storage (so if the computer fails the files are still there).

Or would you "double" up and use something like BackBlaze to do a backup of all the data as well?

Really depends on what the stuff is. You've got two copies already, so unless it's like critical financial data or something. Probably not.

Yeah, with the new O365 personal plan for $99/year, you should really be covered..

hobbit666

@jaredbusch @scottalanmiller yeah that's what was thinking.

What about photos? My mum has 100's of photos ok only 20-30gb but I'd prefer them not to be on the laptop once "backed up/sync'd" so would you trust OneDrive and Microsoft or upload to another cloud or even back to good old USB external drive?

Obsolesce

O365 is great. I've lost my physical drive with all that data on. No problem, got a new one and resync. I accidentally deleted data in OneDrive... No problem, recycle bin and versioning.

I have hundreds of thousands of family photos and videos, as well as important documents, and some vital DB and compressed data backups of my web servers and such.

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jaredbusch @scottalanmiller yeah that's what was thinking.

What about photos? My mum has 100's of photos ok only 20-30gb but I'd prefer them not to be on the laptop once "backed up/sync'd" so would you trust OneDrive and Microsoft or upload to another cloud or even back to good old USB external drive?

I use Flickr for that. It's free.

travisdh1

@hobbit666 Google Photos would be free as well, depending on the camera used to take the pictures, it may not be original quality. As @scottalanmiller mentioned, Flicker is also free, and I don't think it has the same limitations.

AdamF

Migrating all my photos and videos to a central server in my house. Then going to setup duplicati to backup to either remote storage at my office, Backblaze, or perhaps OneDrive

scottalanmiller

I got two web pages on the same "page" in Firefox, which a sliding divider I can move up and down to see one or the other. No idea how I did it or what it is. Super handy, but bizarre and unexpected.

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got two web pages on the same "page" in Firefox, which a sliding divider I can move up and down to see one or the other. No idea how I did it or what it is. Super handy, but bizarre and unexpected.

I need that. How?