My laptop was stolen on Thursday.....

Zeev Goldstein

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My condolences...
It happened to me once a few years ago and since then all my stuff is on the cloud...
 

Daestrum

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Sorry to hear that Johan.
 

Filippo

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I am sorry for you.

With me is to different, because I'm on vacation, have my laptop, but I have my usb-hard drive, where all the data are, forgotten at home. So I can't do anything anymore.
The only one who is happy is my wife.
 

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Johan Schoeman said:
All my B4A and B4J stuff are gone...sad sad day.
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Jammer Ouboet - A sad day with a lot of anger that goes with it - but the positive is that you can start afresh with B4XPages !!!
 

agraham

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Lesson for eveyone. Backup, Backup and Backup some more. After any significant change to anything - documents or programs, I take four identical backups of my computer to 4 portable USB drives - 2 x SSD and 2 x spinning rust - it only takes 10 minutes. If I leave the house one goes with me.
 

Johan Schoeman

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Lots of stuff gone that I will never be able to recover (damage from stolen laptop is mostly work related). Started up my old (2010) HP Pavilion Entertainment PC with Windows 7. At least being able to do some B4J (just updated to B4J V9.80) and B4A. Very hard lesson learnt about backing up my stuff ?
 

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agraham said:
I take four identical backups of my computer to 4 portable USB drives - 2 x SSD and 2 x spinning rust - it only takes 10 minutes. If I leave the house one goes with me.
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Does this mean all your backups are local and stored in your house? (With the exception that you might be on the move and carry one with you.)

What happens if your house burns down and you don't carry a drive on your person?
 

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Sandman said:
Does this mean all your backups are local and stored in your house? (With the exception that you might be on the move and carry one with you.)

What happens if your house burns down and you don't carry a drive on your person?
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This is why I would recommend something like Synology RAID + backing up to something like MEGA/pCloud; or any cloud service that has e2ee (encryption) by default.

So basically: Synology for onsite backups and encrypted cloud for a offsite backup for in case "the unthinkable" happens (ex: fire/weather destroys your RAID setup).


Note to self: I seriously need to do this myself; especially with the recent Google Domains situation as the last thing I want to happen is Google deciding to either axe or severely limit Google Photos/Drive.
 
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I've been using www.idrive.com for past few years. Works great. Have personally and successfully real-life tested the recovery process twice.

Still has this super offer:

 

JackKirk

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My backup regime is:

1. I keep everything under a single folder on my desktop D: - many subfolders with a rigid naming structure for different projects etc - currently about 15GB (lots of images etc)
2. I archive it with 7-zip to my D: - password encrypted, date named and volume split into 4092M-FAT (the largest file size that I can upload to the cloud). I keep this as my immediate fallback if I subsequently stuff up my working copy.
3. Upload D: 7-zip volumes to cloud (AWS S3). I keep all older versions here.
4. Copy D: 7-zip volumes to my local NAS, deleting previous versions.
5. Copy D: 7-zip volumes to USB drive - my floating copy.
6. Decrypt USB drive copy to laptop D: - a simple test that it has all worked.

I do this when I have accumulated about a man-week of work - steps 3,4,5 are run in parallel - takes about an hour but I do it at end of day so I don't sit and watch it.

I would be interested in any critiques...
 
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