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WolverineSix 🚫

Many years ago, I started reading a story that took place in Canada.
A young girl/woman bid in an auction for what she thought was a snow mobile and a few other things.
It turned out to be a deactivated Canadian Air Force Base with all kinds of equipment on it, Snow Cats etc.
that is all I can remember.
I think it was on here
And around that time my main internal HD died but I had no problems because I had it all backed up to an external USB drive, Right ?
Nope!
I lost 6 Seagate external USB drives in one year and a month, very bad design/construction I assume.
I bought and used the recommended recovery software and ended up with over 750,000 files that had to be individually opened and checked for readability to each other and most of them were gibberish, after trying a thousand or so I said f it and gave up.

Replies: LonelyDad weejock Deng Isnu

LonelyDad 🚫

@WolverineSix

Having a physical backup gets more expensive when the storage on your system gets over a couple of terabytes. I finally gave up and signed up with Backblaze. $9 USD for continuous online backup of any size. The base version only keeps deleted/old versions of modified files for 30 days, but for an incremental charge that can be extended to one year or forever. Recovery is either online or by the shipping of physical media to you.

Replies: Dinsdale

Dinsdale 🚫

@LonelyDad

Look at Kenn Ghannon's blog for a cautionary tale involving online backups.

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Dominions Son 🚫
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@Dinsdale

Look at Kenn Ghannon's blog for a cautionary tale involving online backups.

I took a look. Kenn Ghannon was using MS One Drive. One Drive is cloud storage, it is not an on-line backup service.

Cloud storage is meant for live access of documents from multiple devices.

On-line backup services are for backup only and do not provide live access to documents.

To lose everything with real on-line backup, you would have to have a local HD failure at the same time that your on-line backup provider failed. This is extremely low probability.

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DBActive 🚫

@Dominions Son

I also looked at his blog entry. His problem was that he didn't follow the very simple instructions. I've been using one drive since it was released and have had at least 3 new laptops. It makes the process of moving computers easier.
Online backups are a great idea as long as you also have a local backup. Online backups are only a second layer of safety for your data. The company can go out of business, their marketing model can change, you can forget to update the credit card info and have your account canceled. All of those can cause a loss of your data.
If you do have an HDD failure restoring your information can take forever.

weejock 🚫

@WolverineSix

Being an octogenarian technophobe, the replies here terrify me.😒
ps can anybody name the story. It might be quite good

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akarge 🚫

@weejock

ps can anybody name the story. It might be quite good

I was wondering the same thing.

Harold Wilson 🚫

@weejock

Being an octogenarian technophobe, the replies here terrify me.😒

I seem to recall there was a story on this site that featured the description "technological nincompoop." Maybe Daze in the Valley?

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Dinsdale 🚫

@Harold Wilson

yes

Deng Isnu 🚫

@WolverineSix

That's Julie by Karen Blayne. Don't think any of her stories are on SOL but this one can be found with the following google search:

Julie "Karen Blayne"

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