RE: Re Backup Software

["Michael Norman" michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

I too have ordered a copy, actually two copies, of SP Desktop SPX. But before I install it, I've downloaded and am reading their user manuals. Frankly, you have to read them several times to get the drift. I'm close. What throws you are some of the technical terms, either from the standard imaging lexicon (if there is such a thing) or terms they've coined for their product. Ed's posts help. Maybe StorageCraft will hire some writers who understand how to create unambiguous instructions. Still, I agree with Ed. It's worth the work to understand it.

Michael Norman


>-----Original Message-----
>From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Harry Binswanger
>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 5:10 PM
>To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re Backup Software
>
>I just had the most amazing experience. My main drive got tremendously messed up
>(due to Microsoft, no less), so after trying to salvage things for about 5 hours, mostly
>spent in remote sessions with Microsoft support, I decided to go back to my externally
>duplicated drive (see earlier posts).
>I was reluctant to do that right away, because the duplication was done on May 27, 10
>days ago, and I didn't relish the thought of querying my backups for only the files
>changed/created after the cloning date. Something was sure to go wrong in that
>process.
>
>But I steeled myself, swapped in the clone from May 27 and fired up the computer. To
>my amazement, the files from May 27 - today were on the computer! And yet, the
>messed system and program software was back to its proper state. How could this be?
>Either there is a God after all, or somehow Dropbox is set up to automatically (and
>really swiftly) bring me up to date regarding the files in one's Dropbox folder (which in
>my case are virtually all my data files).
>
>So the combination of drive-duplicating (using an external box) and Dropbox is much
>more helpful than either alone.
>
>I did get Shadow Protect (trial), but have not set it up yet, because it's not obvious
>how to do that.
>