Adi Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 I always disconnect hard drive after back-up, but ive never heard of a mains bourne incident frying a computer or hard drive. THis is what is what i asked if you had, had one. I really can't be ar**** with it anymore.
james.wilson Posted December 6, 2013 Posted December 6, 2013 Yes ive had it, but id say it was something that caused the atx psu to over volt and fry everything connected to it. securitywarehouse Security Supplies from Security Warehouse Trade Members please contact us for your TSI vetted trade discount.
Cubit Posted December 6, 2013 Author Posted December 6, 2013 I pay a few pounds to have a huge SkyDrive account. Why not let that handle it and sync to multiple machines as well? Also if you have a spare old pc about make it a Linux server and use affa. Depending on the space required i could then back it all up in the cloud, or you could have another at home backing up work. We use that. all data on main server at work. Backed up every 4 hours locally and also in 3 different off site locations. Its incremental backup useing rsync. Saved me a few times See what you mean. That's pretty good value compared to the competition.
james.wilson Posted December 6, 2013 Posted December 6, 2013 I only did it initially as my phone uploads vids and pics to it and my free 7gig ran out find i use it quite a bit now securitywarehouse Security Supplies from Security Warehouse Trade Members please contact us for your TSI vetted trade discount.
cybergibbons Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 I'm not a fan of block level or drive image backup for home backup. File based backup is a better idea. People care about their data, not their OS and programs or time taken to recover. I like re-installing Windows to clean things out every now and then. I've seen Acronis go wrong often enough when restoring that I'd avoid it. This is what I do to keep my data safe: http://cybergibbons.com/security-2/dont-lose-your-data/ I have a blog, some of which is about alarm security and reverse engineering:http://cybergibbons.com/
datadiffusion Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 And just in case anyone thinks it can't happen, last year I had the backup fail 2 days after the primary, before I could even get the (warrantied) primary replaced...! Not talking business here just MP3s (which were triple backed up) and films (which were not due to 3TB size).... I sure won't be re-uploading all my DVDs anytime soon. So, I've decided to take my work back underground.... to stop it falling into the wrong hands
Cubit Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 Same here, not a problem with Acronis, it's the hardware that let go here. So, Anyone got any useful tips on how to try and revive a a SSD???
matthew.brough Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 Same here, not a problem with Acronis, it's the hardware that let go here. So, Anyone got any useful tips on how to try and revive a a SSD??? CPR? www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/
Cubit Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 CPR? I almost needed it when it happened.
matthew.brough Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 I've had 3 SSD's from cruical turn to bricks. All back on SATA for workstations and glad kept my 15k SAS on the VMware hosts. In fairness to Seagate those Cheetah drives get an absolute beating, especially on IO requests from Webway's software and they are solid as anything. I almost needed it when it happened. And that is just one drive on machine. It is frightening how reliant on this tech we have all become. I was in the datacentre the other day and there must be 20,000 servers + in that building and I just couldn't comprehend the disruption and financial loss an outage in that building would cost. Although it costs a killing this is why we have backup on backup on backup as the dataloss would be unthinkable. www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/
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