[AT] slightly off topic, computer related

[charlie hill]

Thanks Howard.  Sounds like you have a, at least nearly, fool proof
plan.  Unfortunately I'm not inclined to get into routines of doing
that sort of maintenance.  There MUST be, in this day and time,
an easier way to do the job.  I guess cloud storage is the easiest
but I always worry that it will fail or the files will get corrupted.
Kind of like the old story about the widow woman who was down
to her last match and worried that it wouldn't light when she needed
it.  Finally she lit it to find out.  That would be me!  LOL

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Howard Fleming
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 5:35 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] slightly off topic, computer related

If you are going to use flash drives for backup, I would "strongly"
recommend using more than 1.

In the past I have had flash drives fail from static electricity.

Regardless of your backup method, use at least 2 (or more) drives in
rotation.  When one does fail, the data loss is less (painful).

At work I have a backup server that goes out every 4 hour using
rsnapshot and backs up user data on the system.

Once a week (weekend) I do a file copy of all user data on the server to
an external HD and once done, take it off line and store it.  Have about
10 drives in the rotation at the moment, and really need to add more.

Hope this helps,
Howard


On 02/14/2017 05:16 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Thanks Larry,  that’s a good option.
>
> I was listening to Kim Komando the other day and she
> advised someone looking to buy an new laptop to look for
> machines that have,  hmmm what's the term,  drives that
> are not mechanical.  Apparently that is the trend now. I've seen
> some and will look for that option in my next computer.  Thumb drives
> are cheap enough now to make your suggestion a good option.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rlgoss at twc.com
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 9:08 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] slightly off topic, computer related
>
> For digital archiving purposes, I would suggest that you look for a 
> storage
> system that has no moving parts, will store material in formats that do 
> not
> require a separate program to function, require no subscriptions or
> memberships for its use, and is easily distributed geographically. That
> rules out things like Cubby, Dropbox, The Cloud, and most external hard
> drives, but makes things like a thumb drive look very attractive. I have
> been putting all of my tractor literature out in this form for several
> years.  It now is nearly 3 Gigabyes for the whole collection, and there 
> are
> over 500 copies of all of it distributed around the world.  I figure it is
> the most economical form of insurance one could possibly have against a
> catastrophic natural disaster such as fire, flood, or windstorm. All of it
> is in PDF, and all of it can be used on any computer, smart phone, 
> Android,
> or E-reader.
>
>
> Larry
> ---- Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>


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