So, a 7-year old desktop we've had apparently crashed while my kid was doing his homework. When it rebooted, it restored to a point from 2010. No subsequent restore point exists. Have I lost five years of data? Is there something anyone can do?
jayhoz said:Anyone have a backup App they like?
jayhoz said:I think what I want to be able to do is automatically copy important files from the PCs on the network to my media server which is set up in RAID. That would effectively put everything on 3 drives in 2 machines. I've used Acronis to do this in the past, but it seemed a little clunky. Maybe I will dust that off and try again.
Is there a "Tech for Dummies" site that can actually help me understand all of the things said in this post (and other posts)? Couperin47 has been an amazing resource on all things tech, and I truly appreciate the time he spends here...but as one of the less technologically savvy members of the board, it would be great if some site or sites exist that explain (in a very remedial way) things discussed here. In just this post alone, I'd have to look up the following:Couperin47 said:
I prefer imaging drives, especially your boot drive obviously. There is nothing wrong with the imaging program still buried in every version of Windows...except it's slow...deadly slow... imaging a boot drive with 50 Gig on it, from an SSD to a fast internal 7200rpm HD still takes 40 mins. The imaging utility in Active@ Data Studio does the same thing in just under 10 minutes. Others I have used that are equally fast are Macrium Reflect, and Paragon Hard Disk Manager. EASUS ToDo is also fine, but it installs/locks itself to the specific box you install it upon, which is a pain if you want to move it to a new build.
If you just want to make ultra compact backups of specific dirs, while not fully automated, the features in Winrar make it very easy to create a very compact backup file and then update