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Bob Roberts

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Feb 17, 2015, 4:32:26 PM2/17/15
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We are having a stretch os snowy weather here in Roosterville.  After the downright balmy weather we had a couple of weeks back, this return to the deep freeze of winter is not a lot of fun.

I did get another loose hard drive ordered, and will be getting back on a better backup regimen.  Thanks to the group for getting me to think about that again.

Someone asked where I aml located.  I live in the country a little north of Kansas City, Missouri.  This area/community has been called Roosterville for about 100 years from what I've been able to discover, and my family has lived in this area since the early 60's.  It's a great area, with some of the counntry liife still intact, but big city life is not fare away.  We love it here.


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Bob Roberts <bgi...@gmail.com>: Jan 25 03:39PM -0600

I am out of the habit, but I was backing documents up to a thumb drive on a
weekly basis. I would swap between my "live" drive, and one I kept in the
Jeep. I figure this gave me an off site copy. I now have a dual external
hard drive dock ready to install. I will probably follow a similar routine
with removable hard drives.
I like the idea of cloud storage, but living in the country and using
satellite internet has bandwidth restrictions. I may start doing documents
and pictures to the cloud, but current data caps would preclude the music,
and planned movie collections.
Its one drawback of country life. I can't get a pizza delivered either!
LOL
Laura Conrad <lco...@laymusic.org>: Jan 25 04:53PM -0500

>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Roberts <bgi...@gmail.com> writes:
 
 
Bob> I would swap between my "live" drive, and one I kept in the
Bob> Jeep. I figure this gave me an off site copy.
 
The event that actually convinced me to get serious about offsite backup
was when my next door neighbor's apartment was subjected to an illegal
search and all his electronics was seized for evidence that he's a big
time drug dealer (he's not). He eventually got it all back not too many
weeks after the judge threw the case out of court, but by then he'd
replaced most of it, and he sold the original stuff on ebay.
 
So for that purpose, a drive in one's vehicle wouldn't qualify as off
site.
 
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Buzz <bignose...@gmail.com>: Jan 26 11:48AM +1300

Bob
 
I am in a similar situation here - on expensive (compared to US) rural broadband over landline and at least 10 miles from the nearest fush and chups (as the locals pronounce it) - which makes us careful about moving everything to cloud storage. With a PC, four laptops and numerous phones being used for remote working, home business and educational study, not to mention additional usage by our B&B guests, we churn through 80-100GB most months. If we moved everything to cloud storage, I suspect we'd bust our 120GB cap and the top-up would be humongous.
 
Laura
 
While I am fairly well behaved and I am hoping that the FBI/ATF don't have a New Zealand field office yet, you make a good point. I am thinking a small trunk squirrelled away on my friend's farm might be the way to go - off site but near enough to facilitate easy drive swaps.
 
 
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A rural retreat just 40 minutes from the city
 
 
 
Bert Latamore <bert.l...@gmail.com>: Jan 26 09:13AM -0500

Bob,
 
Where are you? We live on a steep hillside at the north end of the Blue
Ridge on dirt roads, which is pretty rural. We depend on Comcast for our
Internet and it has worked reasonably well. The lot is too wooded to allow
us to get satellite. Right now we are getting light snow.
 
Bert
 
 
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Brenda Wallace <brenda....@gmail.com>: Jan 26 01:58PM +1300

I backup to dropbox -- but i do it in incrementals.
 
it's no use merely syncing a folder there. If you delete the files on your
laptop, the delete gets synced.
Instead i run an incremental backup to a PC at home-- and that in turn
syncs those to dropbox.
 
It's a full backup once a month, and any files that have changed every day.
 
 
 
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BigNosed UglyGuy

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Feb 17, 2015, 5:37:37 PM2/17/15
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Bob

"It's a great area, with some of the country life still intact, but big city life is not far away.  We love it here."

Your place sounds much like Woodhill where we live and have a little B&B. For me, it mean 2+ hours in the car daily but the trade-off is pretty good (a balance of city and rural life) and way better than living and working on opposite sides of London before we emigrated.

Cheers

Buzz

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Bert Latamore

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Feb 17, 2015, 6:14:42 PM2/17/15
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Well, I am testing my back right now. We are down at our winter beach timeshare in the Outer Banks. And by the way, it is so cold here, in coastal North Carolina, that there is a skim of ice on the bay, where the wind doesn't reach, and that is salt water. So Saturday we spent a lot of the day packing up, and I did a lot of that because Moire's back limits her physical activity. And we got into the car and set off aat aobut 2:00 p.m,. for the six hour drive down here. We were about 90 minutes down the road and stopped for gas when I ralize that I hd left my Surface Pro II, all packed up, in the livingroom. I had held it to last in case I needed it for something and just forgot it in the final rush to get out. I do have my old laptop, which is my backup machine and which Moire uses for some things. I wasn't going to add three hours to our drive by going home for the tablt at this point.

So I am suffering withdrawal for the week. And I am testing my backup plan. All my documents and data backups are in the Microsoft OneCLoud, and I actually was just working for a couple of hours while my wife sleeps. So that is not an issue. I did discover that I could not restore my QUicken file from the backup becasue I have an oldr version of Quicken on this machine. But I decided I can just do an update Saturday night on my tablet when I get home and in the meantime the information on the bank computer is close enough. It doesn't include a couple of checks that are still out there, but they are not large enough to cause a problem.

I acdtually am getting more use out of my smartphone. I am doing Facebook, Google+ and Pintrest on it and by and large like it better on that platform than the tablet. I am having problems reading The Washington Post in particular on the small screen, but I am borrowing Moire's tablet for that. I can read my magazine, The Week on the phone in Article mode, haven't tried a book yet, but I will do that sometime. 

And I don't have Calorie King on this machine, so I am winging my diet and trying to be careful not to eat extra calories. I wouldn't want to do this for a long time, but I can survive for a week.

All the best, Bert

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