USB memory advice

rccarguy said:
actually they are.

Also magnetic optical is probably most reliable.

Or perhaps laser engraved onto diamond slabs, encased in stasis field, in a underground bunker that is nuke proof.
Click to expand...
Uh oh, we're at bunkers now. I think we blew swan55's budget 😉
 
d6jg said:
Nearly all IT professionals I know switch off the Desktop backup in One Drive but leave Documents and perhaps Pictures - they use Desktop as a transient store. My vinyl rips go to somewhere outside the scope of One Drive altogether and my resultant FLACs go to my NAS which has a backup strategy involving another offsite synchronised NAS.
Click to expand...
Just turned off Desktop backup and everything on my Desktop apart from shortcuts disappeared. I didn't expect that 🤔
Strange thing is, everything is still in my OneDrive Desktop folder but not on my actual desktop.
 
Swan55 said:
Our PC based music library is approx 220gb with many more cd's waiting to be loaded.
We would like to copy them to a usb memory stick for plugging into our Ultra for playback.
Click to expand...
I use a LaCie Mobile Drive 5TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD ($225CAD / 122 GDP) - works great - no idea how hot it gets as it sits on my delay and behaves itself.
 
d6jg said:
If you backup the entire stick and re-write to a new USB stick is that file still valid do you know?
Click to expand...
yes it will work if the content is exactly the same. I've done that when switching from a 1TB m2 drive to a 2TB version.
 
slartibartfast said:
Just turned off Desktop backup and everything on my Desktop apart from shortcuts disappeared. I didn't expect that 🤔
Strange thing is, everything is still in my OneDrive Desktop folder but not on my actual desktop.
Click to expand...
You have the desktop synchronized with OneDrive, not backed up. The desktop is then only saved on OneDrive and not locally. If you have multiple PCs set up like that, they will have a shared desktop.
 
hgo58 said:
You have the desktop synchronized with OneDrive, not backed up. The desktop is then only saved on OneDrive and not locally. If you have multiple PCs set up like that, they will have a shared desktop.
Click to expand...
How did I manage to do that then?
 
hgo58 said:
You have the desktop synchronized with OneDrive, not backed up. The desktop is then only saved on OneDrive and not locally. If you have multiple PCs set up like that, they will have a shared desktop.
Click to expand...
Actually inside OneDrive app Microsoft does refer to the Documents, Pictures & Desktop sync as a "backup"

1754467148280.png
 
d6jg said:
Actually inside OneDrive app Microsoft does refer to the Documents, Pictures & Desktop sync as a "backup"

View attachment 25072
Click to expand...
But will only be on local PC also, if configured to. You can do that on each folder on OneDrive.

The folders on OneDrive is securely backed up, so you will not loose those. This is however not the same as they are on the PC. They just look local.

I think this has to do with how you log in on the PC. Locally or with a Microsoft account?
 
d6jg said:
Actually inside OneDrive app Microsoft does refer to the Documents, Pictures & Desktop sync as a "backup"

View attachment 25072
Click to expand...
It’s a pain. I foolishly agreed to this when prompted last week and it took me a while to undo it as it messed up my shortcuts iirc to various files. Backup for me doesn’t mess with the source, but clearly MS thinks it knows better…
 
hgo58 said:
But will only be on local PC also, if configured to. You can do that on each folder on OneDrive.

The folders on OneDrive is securely backed up, so you will not loose those. This is however not the same as they are on the PC. They just look local.

I think this has to do with how you log in on the PC. Locally or with a Microsoft account?
Click to expand...
So if I check the box to back up Desktop those files should reappear on my PC. I then need to fiddle around in settings to store them only my PC then uncheck Desktop again to stop them wasting space in the cloud. What a palaver 😂
 
hgo58 said:
But will only be on local PC also, if configured to. You can do that on each folder on OneDrive.

The folders on OneDrive is securely backed up, so you will not loose those. This is however not the same as they are on the PC. They just look local.

I think this has to do with how you log in on the PC. Locally or with a Microsoft account?
Click to expand...
I see no way to keep the Desktop files local and not on OneDrive. Even if make the Desktop files always available locally they still disappear if I uncheck the Desktop folder in OneDrive settings. It seems to be impossible to remove those files from the cloud.
Microsoft even say that you can't "uncheck certain folders which are important to the PC, including Documents, Desktop, Pictures and your Personal Vault folder"
How on earth is this meant to work?
 
Pcryan5 said:
I back everything up offsite to cloud. As whose house burnt down once.
Click to expand...
That's terrible Pcryan5 - We all hope everybody was unhurt, and the situation has been resolved.


That situation reminds me that disaster prevention and recovery are important considerations that I have been, and continue, to properly overlook; and that disasters can come in many forms, including fires and natural disaster, floods, theft, and even casual / freaky accidents.

An important part of disaster recovery is = can you actually get your data / music back ? Is it easy ? Do you have to pay somebody ? Does all the technology matchup ? Often, it is not until you actually try to do so, that you come up against reality. It is well worthwhile to put yourself through a little recovery exercise just to find out.

💾💾💾
 
Swan55 said:
That's terrible Pcryan5 - We all hope everybody was unhurt, and the situation has been resolved.


That situation reminds me that disaster prevention and recovery are important considerations that I have been, and continue, to properly overlook; and that disasters can come in many forms, including fires and natural disaster, floods, theft, and even casual / freaky accidents.

An important part of disaster recovery is = can you actually get your data / music back ? Is it easy ? Do you have to pay somebody ? Does all the technology matchup ? Often, it is not until you actually try to do so, that you come up against reality. It is well worthwhile to put yourself through a little recovery exercise just to find out.

💾💾💾
Click to expand...
Nothing was saved but thanks for your thoughts.
I follow the 3-2-1 backup rule is a data protection strategy (three copies of your data, on two different storage media, with one copy stored offsite)
I did not lose a byte.
 
Pcryan5 said:
Nothing was saved but thanks for your thoughts.
I follow the 3-2-1 backup rule is a data protection strategy (three copies of your data, on two different storage media, with one copy stored offsite)
I did not lose a byte.
Click to expand...
Sorry for your losses. We all need to up our game! Thanks for the reminder 🙂
 
Pcryan5 said:
Nothing was saved but thanks for your thoughts.
I follow the 3-2-1 backup rule is a data protection strategy (three copies of your data, on two different storage media, with one copy stored offsite)
I did not lose a byte.
Click to expand...
"3-2-1" = I like that and have not heard it expressed so clearly before.

A trusted neighbour has a copy of our house keys (just in case), so it would be easy to augment that with some backup device now and then.

thanks for the tip.
 
Swan55 said:
"3-2-1" = I like that and have not heard it expressed so clearly before.

A trusted neighbour has a copy of our house keys (just in case), so it would be easy to augment that with some backup device now and then.

thanks for the tip.
Click to expand...
It’s a mantra from my career in enterprise IT. And one we depended on many times from the (bad old) days when 45% of backup could not be recovered
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top