|
I just do a backup to the nearest device with enough space avaliable 
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
|
|
|
|
|
semi-weekly to a NAS
monthly to an external drive that i keep off-site
using Retrospect
|
|
|
|
|
|
I chose manual because my backup solution is not scheduled. The backup process is scripted but my external drive is not attached all the time. I take a true manual backup to mean good old copy and paste in explorer.
|
|
|
|
|
hi,
i am tach support at my office i am takeing backup of few registry manually
how can i take automatic ?
|
|
|
|
|
Tell the intern to do it and slap him hard on the back of his head whenever he forgets. After a few times things will run automatically.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
|
|
|
|
|
abhi3356 wrote: i am tach support at my office i am takeing backup [...] how can i take automatic ?
"Quis subveniet ipsos subvenes?" (= Who supports those who support?) - adapted from Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
|
|
|
|
|
I'm old school
I store everything like we used to before computers, in memory
|
|
|
|
|
Member 4485430 wrote:
I store everything like we used to before computers
Books? Parchment? Wax tablets? Clay tablets? Slabs of stone? Cave paintings?
Member 4485430 wrote: in memory
Now that is really old-school!
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
|
|
|
|
|
Including several hundred lines of source just for one program? 
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
|
|
|
|
|
I was initially thinking that "manual copy" was re-writing the code with a pen over a paper!
Am I becoming too old ?!?
2 bugs found.
> recompile ...
65534 bugs found.
|
|
|
|
|
Outlook and Exchange is the most difficult and the least reliable part of our backup system in office.
Neither of the softwares I've used are able to really and safely backup the outlook files and specially restore them.
Not later than this morning I found one of my folders empty ! Tried to restore from the regular backups we make and I found that the pst file (even if it is shadow copied during backup) is not useful (there is actually a corrupt .tmp file in place). So I was crying my lost of thousands of emails until tonight when I was back home and noticed that my Mac's TimeMachine has perfectly backed up all my exchange folders. Restore was a click away.
I want to say thanks to Apple people who made this part of computing painless and robust and I want to give Microsoft a damn thumb down for not being able to offer a viable and reliable solution.
Thanks apple.
|
|
|
|
|
I can't believe anyone still uses Outlook for professional purposes... 
|
|
|
|
|
I use Outlook 2010 and have no problems with it.
What e-mail client are you using?
|
|
|
|
|
What e-mail client do you recommend?
I'm using Outlook and it works wonderfully...
|
|
|
|
|
I am not, by any means, dissing Microsoft here. Outlook is a great program that has come a long way.
BUT, it is precisely BECAUSE of these issues discussed here, that I no longer trust it. Namely, backing up your data or trying to save a failed install.
I now use "Mozilla, Thunderbird", it is an open source product that continually gets better and better and can interface to all the major protocols and is particularly good with GMail setups. It also uses "Tabs" which you may be familiar with in Firefox.
It has easy import/export facilities and I have first hand experience with restoring email addresses and email archives after a failed Windows install.
It's just my opinion, based on years of experience. Use it/Don't use it...
Jim.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I second this thought. Mozilla Thunderbird and its Lightening (Calendar module) are the best.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
|
|
|
|
|
I think that all the right poll options are here, but that the question is perhaps a bit vague, or narrow, or ... something. I dunno.
I selected each of the first four options because each is true, depending on what "data" we're talking about. Project source code back-up is semi-automated, performed using an "almost version control, but not really" program I wrote. Other stuff - documents, images, program installers and the like - is backed up manually or, again, is semi-automated by use of SyncToy. My server's OS and database backups are automated, to NAS, using ntbackup on a schedule. Workstation OS backups are done also with ntbackup, to a NAS, but initiated manually. And so on. Different answers for different "data."
Colin(ABQ)
|
|
|
|
|
Wow - that's a recipe for not doing it…
Time Machine of Mac, Genie TimeLine on Windows…automated backups as the day progresses…that's the approach I like…
Well, together with full disk cloning at regular intervals as well...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
|
|
|
|
|
Stuart Dootson wrote: Time Machine of Mac, Genie TimeLine on Windows…automated backups as the day progresses…that's the approach I like…
I tried that for a time. The Windows Volume Shadow Service failed without making any obvious mention of it, leading to my reinstalling windows and losing some data. Now I back up manually so I'll know when something critical to the backup stops working.
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
|
|
|
|
|
I've seen so many cases where automated backups either failed silently or appeared to work but saved empty files, or someone accidentally sets the "Incremental backup" flag and eventually discards the baseline full backup etc. Obviously you need automated backup in a company, but I always manually backup irreplaceable stuff like source code and doco.
|
|
|
|
|
I have automated backup of changes in project files using something called History Explorer. This lets me go back to an earlier version of the file. I have manual backup also through source control (in that I have to commit the changes) and finally a manual backup from Visual Studio. I am not as good at remembering to do the manual backups as I should though 
Jon
|
|
|
|
|
...until reality hits. Then not doing it results in   
|
|
|
|
|
Hi Yusuf,
I had to laugh at your comment. After developing for 25 years, I still live on the edge, and forget to backup and each time I get burned, I pledge to backup all the time. Well that lasts as long as a New Year Resolution!
Bill
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
