[bookport] Re: one more backup idea
- From: "Don Barrett" <donter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:07:55 -0400
None taken at all; but consider:
1. Even if you had the transfer software on five different computers, you
could do "create card" on each of them, and the card would be cumulatively
rebuilt, making it actually more of a valuable feature <thanks for thinking
of that; big smile>
2. I would sacrifice losing the bookmarks if it meant a simple easy way to
maintain the files on the card. And actually, and now it gets a little
complicated, given the small size of the bookmark files, the transfer
software could easily auto-copy them to a folder from the card every time
files were sent to the unit with no intervention from the user. Again, when
the "create card" option was selected, the folder of bookmarks could be
copied back to the card in their proper folders. Even with hundreds of
them, their small size would make the effort minimal and quite efficient.
This is fun.
Don
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Subject: [bookport] Re: one more backup idea
uI don't like to be the nay-sayer, but here's what I see wrong with this
idea ... please, no offense intended.
If you have transfer software on more than one computer, then this scheme
won't work, becasue the two computers wouldn't be communicating with each
other.
Second, the main reason people want an auto-backup option instead of, say,
using a nice fast card reader, is that they want to keep their bookmarks and
the like, which this plan, as you have said, doesn't allow for. Again, no
offense intended here.
Bruce
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Don Barrett wrote:
> OK you all, I have one more backup type idea which may prove much more
> efficient than a true backup, which as has been pointed out, would be
> quite slow.
>
> What if, every time you sent a file to the bookport, a line was added
> to a special log file kept by the transfer software giving the path of
> the file being sent. This would take no time at all and would be
> quietly maintained by the transfer software.
>
> Now, down the road, your card gets lost or hosed or whatever and you
> are frantic to recreate your bookport close to what it was before the
> card crash. There could be an option "recreate card" in the tab order
> which would simply use the log file to resend everything it lists back
> to the bookport.
>
> Of course, files deleted from the computer or put directly on the card
> bypassing the transfer software wouldn't be included, but too bad.
> Also, you wouldn't have the bookmarks but so what. You could get most
> if not all of your files and folders back just the way you had them.
> The cool thing about this feature is that until you need it, it takes
> no time really to maintain, keeps a running record of what you have
> sent to the BookPort, and is always there, ready for use if needed.
>
> Don
>
>
>
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