A Harris, post: 359590, member: 81 wrote: Try and remember back in the near past when it was smooth sailing and use that as a restore point.
If this is a new install, it probably needs to be opened in safe mode for some proper tweak to get the conflicts taken care of.
good luck
. Thanks man. I tried that for both of the dates that it presented to me as options. My new laptop is on its way now. Of course as I like to say often, there is no such thing as a "surveying emergency". Well Murphy chose today to test my claim. Client wants to open new store Tuesday. Water/Sewer company won't allow final connections until the as-builts are presented in some magical gis format and on mylars and cd. An e-mail with the certified results apparently just won't do. But I digress.
Anyone using Microsoft sharepoint? It's more of a collaborative site for sharing project info but I'm thinking it could double as online backup storage...
I am a solo operation and keep everything on my C drive and back up to drop box and a jump drive daily at the end of the work day.
I see from reading the responses that many keep their data on an external hard drive. Can you tell what the advantage is to that over storing everything on your C drive and then backing it up to a jump drive and drop box?
Would the data transfer be much faster with an external hard drive?
If I have my data backed up via the cloud and an external jump drive what is wrong with storing everything on the C drive?
thanks,
Jump drive? Like a USB dongle?
1. Cloud is good, but volatile... part of a good practice
2. External drive is great, but you need to unplug it... malware can access any connected device (same goes for cloud)
3. Backup (copy) to an offsite devices you control is another "best practices" element.
I use a combination of all of the above, automated.
Server on site plus auto backup to external drive. External drive is a copy of the server hard drive so if it ever failed or a fire, you grab the external and that's it. Then when you get a new server the external just copies onto the new one and it's like nothing happened.
Also have an online backup as well that backs up the data on the server. I use Carbonite.
I use Dropbox and also back up to an external hard drive. Dropbox is not a true backup because it is copying and overwriting with newer files when synced. If you have a file that becomes corrupted on your computer it can corrupt the "backup" file sitting in Dropbox. I had an accounting file completely corrupted and totally lost this way.
I have a data server with a raid5 system. Had to replace 2 drives (separate times) in the last 10 years and a controller. Then exteral drive and then backup to the cloud. External and cloud is done with a program called cloudberry. Get daily updates of backup status. Great program that is cheap. Cloud storage is on Amazon S3. Very cheap. 500 gig so far and only like $3 a month.
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Scotland, post: 408133, member: 559 wrote: Cloud storage is on Amazon S3. Very cheap. 500 gig so far and only like $3 a month.
That doesn't sound right. The US West pricing for 500GB and over is $0.021 per GB per month, or a little over 10 bucks a month for 500GB. Even Infrequent Access storage ($0.0125/GB/Month) would be over 6 bucks a month. It's only when you go to Glacial Storage that you can get under 3 bucks ($0.004/GB/Month) for 500GB.
I have a little over 400GB on S3 and pay about $10 a month.
Jim Frame, post: 408135, member: 10 wrote: That doesn't sound right. The US West pricing for 500GB and over is $0.021 per GB per month, or a little over 10 bucks a month for 500GB. Even Infrequent Access storage ($0.0125/GB/Month) would be over 6 bucks a month. It's only when you go to Glacial Storage that you can get under 3 bucks ($0.004/GB/Month) for 500GB.
I have a little over 400GB on S3 and pay about $10 a month.
You are correct. When I was posting last night, I really didn't have the info. I have actually 250 requests and storage of 25 Gig this last month ( I thought I had more stored on the cloud). My Server is at 500 Gig. I only backup essential files and not all of the programs. That last bill was $0.54. Normally month payment is around $2.50. My real point is the cost is way less than the other cloud storage programs (carbonite, etc). I paid I believe $30 for cloudberry program and like $9 a year maintenance fee. Getting the whole 25 Gig on the cloud was probably the most expensive. Been using this program for years.
We use Synology NAS devices. Onsite we have an 8 bay main device with 6x2TB drives for data and 2x500GB SSD drives that act as a read/write cache. Then there is a 5 bay extension plugged into that acting as the onsite backup with file versioning. Local offsite in my home is a 4 bay unit that backs up the office data drives nightly for disaster recovery in the event of a fire at the office or a hardware failure. The unit at my home could be quickly used to replace the unit at the office. The office unit is also setup to do a one-way cloud sync to Dropbox. This functions as a real time backup. The second someone hits save the file is synced to the cloud. I believe as someone stated above this could result in a corrupted file being synced but the onsite version backup covers that scenario. We used to run a 4 bay Western Digital Sentinel Server running Windows Server 2012R2 but I was very unhappy with that unit. I really like the Synology tech. The DSM software is slick, easy to understand and it does everything our traditional server would do including running as a VPN server for remote access. We have 12 full time employees banging away at it all day and it hasn't had a hiccup.
