I'm having a meltdown please help!

Sin_Chase · 21 Mar 2013 at 23:17

Why the hell are you thread necroing this?

Biohazard · 21 Mar 2013 at 23:45

I think it's probably searching for something, finding a thread, responding to it and not realising that it's old and or defunct.

Or some posters just ignore normal forum etiquette and move across the spacetime morphed as a worm like creature.

The choice is yours.

ots3go · 21 Mar 2013 at 23:53

I want to know the result of this masters, now!

haz_pro · 22 Mar 2013 at 00:03

Telescopi said:
Sounds good but how often do you test recovering those backups?

Sorry only just seen this. The backups on an hourly basis are automatically checked by the software. It is just set up as a simple mirror any way so no extraction or anything else needed.

Drop box has always worked perfectly for me to so I don't tend to worry about that working correctly.

Diagro · 22 Mar 2013 at 00:26

when i go to hand in my cw at uni i tak ein 2 USB's one in a jacket pocket and one in my trousers. also Email it to my Gmail and Hotmail. Also its on dropbox

Burnsy2023 · 22 Mar 2013 at 00:45

King Damager said:
I have everything on Dropbox. (Assignment wise)

Obviously have a file on my hardrive as well due to dropbox's mechanism.

I then back it up on occasion to an additional hard drive.

kd

The only backup there is the occasional one to your hard drive. Remember if it corrupts, all the machines with a local dropbox copy, with propagate the corruption. Make sure the other backups are regular enough to recover from if need be.

Cupra · 22 Mar 2013 at 02:20

wow reply fail.

antijoke · 22 Mar 2013 at 06:21

Kids today have it so easy, in my day you backed up to floppy disks.

[FnG]magnolia · 22 Mar 2013 at 07:22

Two necros on the first page.

Is it possible that somehow we're becoming even worse? Has the low-tide GD watermark sunk hilariously and almost impossibly lower? :eek:

Soundood · 22 Mar 2013 at 08:20

thenewoc said:
Even with a backup you can get caught out as I discovered years ago with acronis true image, brilliant at drive images so I put my trust in it for backups and then discovered it had fowled up my email backup which was pop3 email in outlook back then. Ideally one would check the backup by restoring it somewhere else and seeing if you could open the restored files but space was a premium then as is time.

I truly believe that in the beginning of the internet, and forums in particular. some people just got off on the wrong start,

now they forever move across forums sideways like a crab, plopping out various random responses to threads from long ago,

they are indeed the Agent Smiths of forum life,

Anomalys :eek:

Voltar · 22 Mar 2013 at 08:54

The moral of this story is keep a backup of your work otherwise you'll disappear off the face of the earth like the OP...

jackthezipper · 22 Mar 2013 at 08:56

Used to always keep mine on usb pen and also email it to myself plus save it to whatever computer I was on.

thenewoc · 22 Mar 2013 at 09:27

LMAO - The post caught my eye after returning to the open tab from an earlier search and I didn't notice the date. Lighten up it's only a forum, general discussion at that, not wikipedia or a formal letter. Regardless of the date the general sentiment and discussion is as relevant today as it was a few months ago.