Once in a while when I test a backup product for this Reminder, I get anomalous results. The anomaly usually takes the form of bizarrely slow performance. The causes are hard to pinpoint, but my chief suspect is conflicts with existing backup software, especially those that support open and locked files, or with some other background program. I seem to have an inordinately large number of programs … [Read more...]
Test-Driving the (Maxtor OneTouch) Mini: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 10-19-07
Yes, I'm two days late with this. Friday morning we were in Dunsmuir. It was raining so hard you couldn't even see Mount Shasta, the Ur-Guru was in an evil mood because of the weather, and we were facing a long drive across the mountains to Eureka to meet my long-lost cousin and his family. So I had just about time to back up the computer to my new Maxtor OneTouch Mini drive, and no time to write … [Read more...]
Hacking Your Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 06-15-07
So here I am on vacation with my family (10 adults and 3 children, including me), dutifully connecting my X drive and letting Karen’s Replicator copy my files onto it every time I start the computer. Mozy tells me it last backed up my files 54 minutes ago, and SyncBack has continued to replicate everything important onto my D drive whenever the machine is idle (which is fairly often, since I am on … [Read more...]
FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 07-07-06: Geek Up for Backups
Yesterday morning I got a message from my brother—the one who lost most of his photos to a hard drive crash a few months ago (05-19-06 Backup Reminder). Unlike many people who lose their data because they don’t have backups, he’s taken some action to make sure it doesn’t happen again. “Well, I really geeked it up this weekend in an effort to avoid future data loss from HD failure. I took an old … [Read more...]
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