Re: Windows 10 is creeping into your system, it is time to make a decision!

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

In addition to local external drives, I've had great success using Dropbox
as immediate, transparent backup. I have not only XyWrite but almost all my
data files *inside* the dropbox folder.


There is also what they used to call the "Packrat" option, which means they
keep a copy of every version you ever make of each file. I have hundreds,
even thousands, of versions of some files that I keep the filename of while
I make modifications of it, and I frequently find I want to go back to an
earlier version (because I screwed up the later ones). You pay extra for
this option, but it's only about $150 per year, and well worth it if you
work as I do on multiple revisions of the same file.


--Harry

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> Jordan,
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> Daily backups are a must, and a godsend in case of hiccups. If the worst
> happens, you just roll back. With virtual machines, the process is really
> smooth. Ideally, your main operating system should just be a host for
> dispensable virtual machines.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> 29.11.2015, 18:59, J R FOX kirjoitti:
> > A few times I've had to resort to wiping a drive and putting back an
> > Acronis boot partition image that was not nearly as recent as I would
> > have liked, then building it back to where it was when the system got
> > nuked. (A full reinstall from scratch would be completely unacceptable
> > and unthinkable to me.) My time is too valuable to have to pour a lot of
> > it into this crap ! So, NO, I'm going to minimize their chances of doing
> > this again.