A little story about safety copies ........

[Merlot2309]

Hello all,

Last week 'they' robbed my house. I woke up, saw 'them', shouted and discovered that they took my 2 camera's, laptop, handy cam, 3 mobiles and handbag. My tv was in the garden.
I know that I did not copy all my important stuff into a Cloud. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Well, they did not take my imac !!!!!!! that would have been far less painful. Since I don't have a windows system now I can't do anything with my B4A android projects, so please be smarter than me: copy your work.

Greetzzzz, Helen.

Ps: I wonder if I'm the only one who forgets to copy-up important files so now and then .....?¿?¿?¿?¿?

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Really sorry to hear that
As long as you are safe none of that matters.

I use BitReplica to do my backups, it is quite automated, however from time to time I upload the backup onto Dropbox (not too regular though).

 

[eps]

That's terrible!

Which reminds me, I need to take a backup as well!!

I used to be _really_ good with backups, but have been a bit lax of late.

 

[klaus]

That's really bad.
I should think about that, I'm like you were, no backup.

Best regards.

 

[Stulish]

Helen,

Sorry to hear of this terrible thing happening to you, i hope you and your family are all ok, it is horrible to think people can just come and take what you have had to work and pay for, because they cant be bothered to do a hard days work . I have now taken your advice and backed up all my work onto a backup server provided by my ISP and also onto a 64GB pen drive.

I will have to ensure i back up regularly.

Kindest Regards

Stu

 

[susu]

Sorry to heard what happen to you

I'm using GoDaddy's online storage with auto backup, just more than $1/month for 100GB. Everybody should try it.

 

[IanMc]

condolences

That's terrible, hope they catch the B****rds.

Its a good wakeup call to all of us.

Sad that society has a bunch of drug addicts that must steal to get money for their addiction.

Luckily you are such a good programmer that you'll be able to re-write your stuff in no time, better than before.

My heart goes out to you, don't let it get to you, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again.

Oh, and window locks, make your property a little more secure than those around you and they'll pick the easier target next time.

A few cameras (they can be fake) and a sign or two saying 'video surveillance recording' should do the trick.

So, now, whenever you want to watch TV you have to go out into the garden? That's bad!

 

[Merlot2309]

Hi all,

Thanks for all your nice words and the suggestions.
I bought an Acer laptop now and have been busy with re installing everything.
Luckily enough I found a lot of the programming work back on Dropbox, pfffff.

What realy is painful is the loss of my cameras.
I have been searching the internet, especially for my Olympus E-5 with the Sigma 300-800mm objective. Saw somewhere that "they" ship it abroad.
Thinking about security: wire with 220V, or shouldn't I say that :sign0148:. Well, I decided to find another place to live, very close to the guardia civil, ha, ha.

Best regards,
Helen.

 

[mc73]

Back in 1992 lost all my songs' folders. They were demos I had prepared while I was dealing with some music labels at your country. Disaster (?)
In 1998 I've lost all my trading systems while at the hedge fund I worked for.
One may say this was horrible, trust me, everything got better since then, I simply write much better things ( at least so I think )
Anyway, glad you're ok, this is what matters. Concerning everything else, I'm sure you'll do it again, and even better

 

[TomA]

Backups

One article I ran across a number of years ago mentioned that most people think about having backups so they are covered "if their hard drive fails". It pointed out that this phrase is wrong - it is not "if your hard drive fails", it should be thought of in terms of being covered "WHEN your hard drive fails". Having your system stolen is even a worse situation.

In any case, since I started using a PC in the 80s, I have had 7 hard drive failures - one of them occurring on a new system that was less than a month old. I learned my lesson the hard way and started doing backups myself, but after one failure I realized that my last backup had been done some 6 months previously - not a lot of help for relatively current data. It was at that point that I went for an online automatic backup system - one that keeps things backed up without my intervention and also keeps multiple versions of files.

I have used it twice to recover from drive failures and it made restoring my system a relatively easy job and made the cost worth every penny. I use a system called Carbonite (they offer several plans - see Carbonite Online Backup Solutions for details) and are set up in such a way as to make restores, even of single files, very easy. The backed up data appears as just another drive in Windows Explorer so it makes it easy to recover - even to get back a copy of an accidentally deleted file. The most data I might lose is the stuff I did in the last hour or so before the disaster. Carbonite also include a mobile app for Android that allows you to access your files anywhere as well as back up photos and videos from your phone and provides a number of features to help in recovering a lost phone and/or protecting the data in it (up to and including erasing everything).

I would recommend that this system (or any system equivalent to it) should be used by any serious computer user. It makes backup automatic (so you don't have to remember to do it) and also means that the backup is offsite so a really serious event (fire, flood, stolen computer, etc.) still leaves you in a position to recover all of your data. (

 

[positrom2]

I have looked for several backup solutions. Most of them that I found will do the backup in a scheduled manner, i.e. every hour, day or so. However, when working with B4A, this is not the preferred method to me due to the absent "Save as". Therefore, a solution that backups files under a different name (time stamp) as soon as they are changed would somehow solve both, the data safety issue and the missing "Save as". I found "autover" from Beanland quite useful (freeware). One can even integrate "WinMerge" to easily find changes between files with different timestamps.
Regards, positrom2

 

[alfcen]

USB and FTP

Hi Helen,

Good knowing that you got away without being hurt.

Backup on USB sticks. They are small and can be put in places where they are for sure overlooked.

Since we are quake and tsunami prone, I also upload source codes to my web provider in the US via FTP.
I don't like cloud services. You never can tell what is happening to your data there.

Important is that the backup location is physically separate from the PC. A backup to drive D: is no backup
since C: and D: are often the same physical unit.

Oops that reminds me, its time again for the next regular backup to the server.

All the best and stay safe!

Robert

 

[Erel]

Oops that reminds me, its time again for the next regular backup to the server.

Try Cobian Backup tool: Cobian's site
Really powerful.

 

[Merlot2309]

Hello all,
Thank you very much for the nice words and tips. I just moved to an apartment building, top floor with fantastic views, pfffff.
Have to do a lot of reading on the beautiful new forum.
In the meantime I found two interesting issues: www.stolencamerafinder.com and dropbox shows webactivities of the connected devices in the security tab.
Take care and have fun,
Helen.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Very useful Helen.
I never knew about stolencamerafinder. But I know some people used Dropbox to recover their laptops.
You can also use Prey and LoJack. (Some people use DynDns and an ssh server to login to their PC from anywhere).
Also, since you use Dropbox already, you can use my apps (see my signature) to backup your phone data as well at any time.
Stay safe!

 

[Merlot2309]

Hi and I immediately got your apps. Gooooood job and very nice design. Thank you and the stars will follow.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Thank you

 

[eps]

I've got Prey on my laptop and on my smartphone

I've also recently started to use TimeMachine to backup my laptop. I need to transfer everything else over to a 2TB HDD I purchased and then consolidate a few files and then burn a few DVDs as well.