World Backup Day
Mar 29, 2023 07:38:35 #
Friday, March 31 is World Backup Day. So backup everything. I backup files every few days, but maybe I'll backup twice on Friday. 
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
Mar 29, 2023 07:51:19 #
Darn, I just did one yesterday.
Maybe I'll do the "B" backup Friday.
Maybe I'll do the "B" backup Friday.
Mar 29, 2023 09:38:40 #
Mar 29, 2023 22:19:35 #
RiJoRi
Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC
Hmmm... World Backup Day is the day before April Fool's Day? 🤔 Just in case, I suppose!
--Rich
--Rich
Mar 30, 2023 07:27:46 #
RiJoRi wrote:
Hmmm... World Backup Day is the day before April Fool's Day? 🤔 Just in case, I suppose!
--Rich
--Rich
If you don't backup on March 31, you might feel like a fool on April 1 when you lose everything.
Mar 30, 2023 09:24:16 #
I'm glad Time Machine backs up every hour, on the hour, and backs up anything that is new.
Since I teach, I also take a small 2TB hard drive with me that has all the Powerpoint Image Files that I use. All of this is really easy to do, and so helpful.
BTW, when we took a vacation last summer, our 'house sitter' used my computer and did some things I could not even understand. Bottom line, it no longer worked properly. Off to Microcenter and they reformatted my hard drive. Yes everything was lost. BUT, all I had to do was connect my TimeMachine external hard drive to the iMac, and let it run. It took several hours, but absolutely everything was returned to my computer. Nice.
Bill
Since I teach, I also take a small 2TB hard drive with me that has all the Powerpoint Image Files that I use. All of this is really easy to do, and so helpful.
BTW, when we took a vacation last summer, our 'house sitter' used my computer and did some things I could not even understand. Bottom line, it no longer worked properly. Off to Microcenter and they reformatted my hard drive. Yes everything was lost. BUT, all I had to do was connect my TimeMachine external hard drive to the iMac, and let it run. It took several hours, but absolutely everything was returned to my computer. Nice.
Bill
Mar 30, 2023 09:30:49 #
The last time I backed up I hit a sign and put a nasty scratch in my right rear quarter panel!
Mar 30, 2023 10:06:33 #
Bridges wrote:
The last time I backed up I hit a sign and put a nasty scratch in my right rear quarter panel!
Been there, done that.
Kinda pi#%ed me off. I mean; what was that thing doing behind me, anyway.
Mar 30, 2023 13:55:32 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Friday, March 31 is World Backup Day. So backup everything. I backup files every few days, but maybe I'll backup twice on Friday.
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
I just hate that infernal beeping when they back up.
Mar 30, 2023 14:02:25 #
13 wrote:
Mine does it at every hour.
I am connected to Dropbox, and everytime I save anything it goes to Dropbox automatically and is saved there as well as on my home or office machines in use at the time.
Mar 30, 2023 16:35:25 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Friday, March 31 is World Backup Day. So backup everything. I backup files every few days, but maybe I'll backup twice on Friday.
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
If we were able to back up the world and recover the things and people worth saving, we might have a livable planet.
Mark
Mar 30, 2023 23:37:55 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Friday, March 31 is World Backup Day. So backup everything. I backup files every few days, but maybe I'll backup twice on Friday.
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
Automated backup goes to multiple drives and to my wife’s PC every night
Manual backup to 1, of a pair, of drives which are swapped out to an off site location periodically. These drives don’t stay connected all the time… just plug them up, run backup, disconnect… backup a couple of times a week
Mar 30, 2023 23:47:18 #
markngolf wrote:
If we were able to back up the world and recover the things and people worth saving, we might have a livable planet.
Mark
Mark
Nice sentiment. But in practice it will depend on “who decides” what and who are worth saving.
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