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68040
512 MB  Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! 
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on: September 09, 2022, 17:39
Backing up my (by now huge) application drive, after I did the startup volume already with Tri-BACKUP. It feels good, it feels righteous to be finally performing this basic housekeeping task. I would have had a very low opinion of myself - as a systems admin after all - should I have allowed Murphy to catch me with my pants down. Was wondering if anybody else gets a kick out of doing backups like that? And how do you make that sound sexy, when you try to tell the woman at the bar about what keeps you up at night? :O |
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: September 09, 2022, 20:31
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LOL. Not sure if there is any good pick-up line that involves back-ups, but then I'm out of that business for more than a decade already, so times might have changed :-D Congrats on backing up though. Always a chore until you urgently need a backup! I've been doing it the good ol' way .. that is drag & drop of my entire HD contents onto an external firewire HDD (via my G4)
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: September 09, 2022, 21:06
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Watching "Adele and the Secret of the Pharaoh" on TV right now. A modern day fantasy movie trimmed the old fashioned way: Sparse nudity, few foul words, and an actual plot line. Takes a lot of work to get that right, but looks a much better than the "quick & dirty" stuff that our days produce. Just like my B-II setup. 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #3 on: September 09, 2022, 21:50
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Yeah, but in order to manage that and impress by quality, you need to invest a lot of time, brain and energy. It's much easier to just use profanity or nudity. It's the equivalent of getting an actual degree in physics vs. getting a degree in political science and manipulating your CV to make you look much more than you actually are. Which brings us back to your newly discovered software Tri-Backup. How does that differ from my simpleton ways of backing up System 7 by drag'n'drop? One might call it "the Annalena Baerbock or Antony Blinken way of doing things"?
Last Edit: September 09, 2022, 21:55 by Bolkonskij
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #4 on: September 09, 2022, 22:18
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Well, Analena ain't capable of compression, multi-generational backups, scheduled operations, error checking, exclusion lists or copying only files of a specific type (apps vs. documents). Madame Baerbock has just 1 mode of operation and never stops to double check. So I prefer Nelson Mandela instead: Keep the peace and take good care of every type of file. Even those that don't happen to look like you.
Last Edit: September 09, 2022, 22:21 by 68040
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #5 on: September 10, 2022, 04:53
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I got lost somewhere in this thread. I do backups mainly by drag and drop. I have never seen much point in backing up the system or applications. I back up my home folder by dragging and dropping folders to USB drivers. Pictures to picture drive, Documents to document drive, etc. I started using TimeMachine with OSX. I use it regular for making backups, but I can not ever recall using it to restore anything. I do not tend to be very nostalgic and I am pretty minimal. If I have have not used or looked at something for three months, I usually just get rid of it. I have had the same email addresses for a couple decades and I think all total my email client has six messages in the inbox, and why would anyone need more than an inbox. I think for backups it is important to just figure out what you need to backup and what is easiest for your workflow. Then just do backup that way until it becomes a habit and you just always have what you need backed up in a manor you feel comfortable with.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #6 on: September 10, 2022, 09:52
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Old Admin saying: W/o a good disaster recovery strategy its not a question if you'll loose your data but when. To each his own but I prefer a backup scheme that allows me to restore *everything* from scratch if need be. And that over multiple generations, because I like to pick & chose. This way neither virus infection nor volume corruption can put me out of business permanently.
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot
Reply #7 on: September 18, 2022, 21:51
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Real men don't take backups, but they cry a lot. 
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