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Backup policy
Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-02-12 23:16:34
Do you have a backup policy for your own computer?
For me...nothing elaborate.
I use Nero to backup important folders. I usually do it about once in 3 to 4 days. But whenever major changes are made to files or new ones are created, I perform a backup the same day. I usually change the CD monthly and label it with a date.

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Posted by Viz. alpha 546 from on 2007-02-13 00:46:15 Reply
No, never. I just don't think of it.
[and yes, I know this IS lame]
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  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-02-22 15:15:38 Reply
  Hm...better be safe than sorry ;)
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Posted by Viz. justonp6 955 from on 2007-02-13 05:59:31 Reply
I don't really have anything important enough to go through that trouble. I think they have programs to automate that though sphinx
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so I feel I stay on the 1% side. I bet the same is true for the majority of you, since you are reading Fravia's pages. If not, carry on and study some more essays, you will surely change your status.
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Posted by Viz. blackopz 682 from on 2007-02-14 21:01:07 Reply
lets just says i NOW have a back up policy

Dam pc oh how i hate you
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Posted by Pha. Sapr0 1354 from on 2007-02-21 00:22:38 Reply
no back up ... my proc died from september and i never got the chance to buy an other one ... no more procs on socket 478 and upgrading the systems costs a bit.
I wanted to wait for AMD QuadCore but they are too freaking expensive, i think i'll just have to settle with Intel Core 2 Duo
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Posted by Scr. i_need_help 319 from on 2007-02-22 07:51:59 Reply
I use usb based external hard drives. Winzip or gzip (depending on platform) to compress and I use the external drive as the target. Once I get enough compressed files to fill a dvd then I burn them with Nero.
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- Re^2: Backup policy
  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-02-22 15:14:41 Reply
  I had a file that was Winzipped a few years ago - in fact, a pyramid-related file. I couldn't unzip that file with my current version of Winzip...so do be wary of the pitfalls of zipping your files.
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    Posted by Viz. justonp6 955 from on 2007-02-22 16:14:53 Reply
    Sounds like a nice challenge ;)
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    so I feel I stay on the 1% side. I bet the same is true for the majority of you, since you are reading Fravia's pages. If not, carry on and study some more essays, you will surely change your status.
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      Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-02-22 16:24:03 Reply
      *rolleyes
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    Posted by Scr. i_need_help 319 from on 2007-02-23 01:09:59 Reply
    Old versions of live cd's like Knoppix that have older versions of gzip and gunzip are very handy for stuff like this.
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    Posted by Viz. cosmas 169 from on 2007-02-23 07:51:59 Reply
    Did you recover the contents?
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      Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-02-23 09:29:50 Reply
      It's a data file and isn't that important so I didn't really try to recover the contents. I was just surprised that it failed to unzip because I'm using a newer Winzip version.
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        Posted by Viz. neoeon 106 from on 2007-03-01 03:34:21 Reply
        Linux with unzip is worth a try in such cases. It seems to be very error-tolerant.
        I learned that from a corrupted zipfile (a few bits got lost while copying it to a usb-stick) winzip failed with an error because the checksum didn't match. unzip didn't care at all all files were decompressed and to my surprise each was correct. (Maybe only the checksum got corrupted?!)
        The other case was on the pythonchallenge - there was a corrupted zipfile which you were supposed to heal. I didn't even recognized it was corrupted - and wondered where the obstacle in the challenge was *g*.
        So if you design a challenge with a corrupted zipfile - test if unzip also fails, or some users have an unfair advantage .
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