I have them all :), you name it.. external hard drives, internal hard drives (multiples OS boot), take home dvd, Acronis, Home Server, AC off site (100 meg file every night). But still not enterprise level
.... little guy setup....
SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE TOO MUCH. WAY TOO COMPLICATED.
Yes enc. backup Bert. I had backup from Imported last week. Not yet backing up for this week.
.ENCS SHOULD BE BACKED UP NIGHTLY.
A full restore is only when nothing else possible. i don't like full restore at all. I had RAID before but 2 drives failed, then motherboard failed. A restore from backup not good if changing over to a different motherboard, MB getting obsolete quick too. At one time I did buy an identical MB but did not test it... then when needed the untested one not working, and that model discontinued...Talking about uncertainty.. anyone physics undergrad?
WHY IS FAULTY MOTHERBOARD AND COMPUTER A FULL BACKUP'S FAULT. A FULL RESTORE IS WHEN YOU LOSE ALL YOUR DATA. YOU DON'T HAVE TO RESTORE IT. IT'S JUST THAT A FULL BACKUP WOULD CONTAIN YOUR LOST FILES.
THE IDEA IS TO CHANGE YOUR HARD DRIVE BEFORE IT FAILS AND REBUILD RAID. SOUNDS LIKE YOU NEED A HOT SPARE.
what good is RAID if PC going bad? If you are not that lucky then 99% redundancy still not doing you good. But my setup is almost invincible.
NOT TO BE MEAN, BUT IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH IT IS NOT INVINCIBLE.
RAID IS FOR REDUNDANCY, NOT BACKUP. RAID WON'T GET YOUR FILES BACK. FILES GONE ON DRIVE 1 OF RAID MEANS FILES GONE DRIVE 2 OF RAID.
I did explain it in my other post. Multiple backups at the clinic, another full setup at home, identical config main computers with multiple OS boot. The most is one day data lost, still that not affordable ( 25 charts to reenter )
NOT SURE HOW MULTIPLE BOOT WOULD HELP. I THINK 24 HOURS IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE. IF NOT, YOU NEED CDP. YOU ALSO NEED BACKUPS BACK AT LEAST ONE TO TWO MONTHS. MINE GO BACK A YEAR. THIS IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE. WHEN DID YOU LOSE THOSE FILES. COULD HAVE BEEN FIVE MONTHS AGO.
Probably multiple OS boot is one of best backup options also.
PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY BOOTING TO MULTIPLE OS IS A GOOD BACKUP ISSUE.
But still the hassle of imported items restore. Even I am not that sharp anymore but delete files in 30 folders? The folders were there but many files missing. I tried AC support today but they were not available, to see if any way to trace how those files being deleted. AC has the utility to check for missing links and make a report, and import missing files (browse for files to be imported but not sub folders)
IT IS THE FILES THAT ARE GONE. NOT THE LINKS. AC HAS NO WAY OF TRACKING WHERE THE FILES ARE. THE MUST BE MOVED OR DELETED?
So the missing files cause either by AC or the free SyncToy program from Microsoft. I've been using SyncToy with 'Echo' option for years (means nothing to delete). I have to manual sync our AC to hard drives, at least once a day, my Acronis also running twice a day full system drive backup. Delete while under... early dementia onset? haha... I need to see one of our AC docs. Bert and James are one of our Sql server expert here, so my questions is any log to trace imported items? any utilities available for sql express? No budget to upgrade to full sql and I passed the point to play with codes. AC is not fully SQL implemented as it still keep imported items staying outside of sql security and redundancy.
AGAIN I THINK SYNCING DATABASE TWICE AND BACKING UP WITH ACRONIS TWICE IS OVERKILL. AC LIKELY DID NOT LOSE YOUR FILES. NEITHER DID SYNCTOY.
AC CANNOT PUT IMPORTED ITEMS IN SQL. SQL CAN HOLD 4GBS. MANY USERS HAVE 10 OR 20 GBS OF IMPORTED ITEMS.
PERSONALLY, I WOULD JUST TAKE THE LOSS AND MAYBE MAKE A NEW BACK UP STRATEGY. MAYBE JUST COPY AND PASTE YOUR IMPORTED ITEMS FOLDER.
