Governor,
I should add I'm much more in favor of using a professional backup
package, rather than a file copy utility like microsoft's sync.
The reason is I can't tell you how many times we get requests from
someone who says "I've been working on a very large document every day
now for a month, and I just found (some disaster here like "chapter 1 is
missing", or the entire middle section is corrupt", ...). going back to
last night's file copy, which has just been copying the file on top of
itself on the backup drive, just gives you the same corrupted document.
you really need the ability to go back through backups until you find
one which has a good copy of the document. my backup software which
came with my drive calls this the "time machine" feature.
if you've been using sync to copy your files to the same location on an
external usb drive, you'd have lost this documentby doing that. this is
especially true for databases, which can become corrupt for a long time
before you are aware of it.
hth,
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
-----Original Message-----
From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chip Orange
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:54 AM
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tabi] Re: BACKUP SOLUTIONS
And one more bit of info on Casper for you Governor: it will make
backups, onto a USB external drive, so that the drive is
bootable. this
way, if your drive completely fails, you can boot from your
backup drive
to use your computer, and to restore the drive contents.
here's how the
Casper owner phrases it, when trying to convince others to upgrade to
the latest version:
"for those useing older versions of casper cloneing software.
version 6
does
something i never thought possable.
if your computer bios supports booting from a usb device casper6 makes
backups to a usb drive bootable from the u s b port. until now i was
never
able to boot vista from a external drive to restore the c
drive. now it
boots with speech running so you still have speech.
until casper 6 the external drive would keep restarting and would not
get
past the windows progress bar."
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
-----Original Message-----
From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chip Orange
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:28 AM
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tabi] Re: BACKUP SOLUTIONS
Hi Governor,
I asked on the blind technology list about screen-reader
friendly backup
software. If you're willing to spend a little money, by
far the best
was said to be Casper. Very easy to use.
For free:
"Microsoft Sync Toy
and Karen's Replicator, are both free and work very well with screen
readers."
was the answer I got.
hth,
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
-----Original Message-----
From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of governor staten
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 2:16 PM
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tabi] BACKUP SOLUTIONS
Hi list. Are there any accessible backup solutions that you
guys use?
I'm looking at comodo backup. Doesn't seem accessible at all. I'd
appreciate any ideas you all will have.
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