The Ultimate "Fail"

Could go down the cloud route which generally is much cheaper. Such as Google and Microsoft drive gives you 15 gb free. Not sure how large your scenery folder is however though.
 
Phew, Ed, that was a close one!

Right. Time to back up. I have two 250gb SSD's, a 1TB internal mechanical and a 750gb mechanical WD external drive. I don't have much spare time to fool around installing and playing around with specialty backup software (including imaging). So, if I want a quick and dirty backup, I would use good old fashioned "copy and past" (overnight) of my FSX folder (107gb size currently) probably onto the 1TB internal drive. Any better way to do this as quickly? Also, my inactive aircraft "hangar" of over 1,000+ a/c along with scenery mesh are solely on the 750gb external drive. Take it this means it also needs to be duplicated as well on another one of my drives for safety sake?

Thanks

expat
 
Chris Sykes said:
Could go down the cloud route which generally is much cheaper. Such as Google and Microsoft drive gives you 15 gb free. Not sure how large your scenery folder is however though.
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Thought about that but just that one folder contains over 30gig of scenery, lol
 
Well to do backup propperly you should have said back up replicated at least 2x, one stored locally and one stored seperate to your location. This allows for replication and also your not storing them in the same location. You should also think about damage recovery, for instance what would you do to recover your data for a major loss? Say what would be the easiest and quickest to grab if you had to leave your house? The PC or your back up system?

In reality you could get away with purchasing an external HHD caddy, or hot swap drive bay and a good 1tb HHD for quite cheaply. This way they are more reliable than the USB external drives. Powering/plugging in to process your back up, then when completed disconect and store in a safe location that is either quick to grab or in a seperate location altogether.
 
falcon409 said:
Thought about that but just that one folder contains over 30gig of scenery, lol
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Well the likelyhood is most scenery would need to be reinstalled (ORBX for instance) so have the installed saved, and then if you have just scenery that didnt need installers (Zip copy and paste type) then take a backup of these. If the folders are too much then maybe you need to look at a hard drive backup.
 
Chris Sykes said:
Well to do backup propperly you should have said back up replicated at least 2x, one stored locally and one stored seperate to your location. This allows for replication and also your not storing them in the same location. You should also think about damage recovery, for instance what would you do to recover your data for a major loss? Say what would be the easiest and quickest to grab if you had to leave your house? The PC or your back up system?

In reality you could get away with purchasing an external HHD caddy, or hot swap drive bay and a good 1tb HHD for quite cheaply. This way they are more reliable than the USB external drives. Powering/plugging in to process your back up, then when completed disconect and store in a safe location that is either quick to grab or in a seperate location altogether.
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...or follow post #14 ...;)

Mentioned....redundancies .... remote storage [my case....fire-safe]...as to be certain....if you're not even 'there' to grab the PC...or backup then your backup plans are toast...along with your data...;)

Forget CD/DVD unless 'temporary'....the jury is still 'out' as to real/reliable expected life-span of a burnt disc.

Forget the 'cloud' or any external 'storage' outside of your own physical control. If you do not control it physically then you cannot guarantee it is always there...or will continue to be.

Just last night I was explaining to a Stardock customer that since his subscription had expired he no longer had access to the files he had 'assumed' he could always download.....he can....simply as long as the sub continues. Last time I purchased an aircraft the DL link was to remain active for a fixed/limited time.....which meant I could not rely on its 'cloud' as a backup source...to DL as and when I want....no....I'd be responsible to DL and keep the product safe on my HD while I could.
Nothing you can do will prevent whatever calamity may befall data on a 'cloud storage' server managed by someone else for their own agenda. It is a 'second condom' at best [to be sure to be sure] ...;)
 
Just a word about restoring lost files, and this is coming from what I have discovered after "thinking" I had gotten my scenery files back. What you see is not always what you think you got back. Thus far I have attempted to install the Hawaii Mega Scenery, Aerosofts Dillingham and my own Sherman Municipal Airport. The only thing at Sherman that shows is the AFCAD, Dillingham doesn't show at all and neither does any of the Mega Scenery. There were a few Islands in the Hawaii group that would lock the sim up and so I discarded those for the time being, the rest load fine, but they don't display. So, despite being able to recover the scenery, it appears that "recovery" doesn't always equate to successful recovery. If, after loss of files you don't touch the computer in any way, defraging, cleaning out the Recycle Bin or any other seemingly minor function. . .you may get everything back intact. In my case I didn't notice the mistake until a full day after it happened and probably did at least one defrag that previous evening. That's all it took I guess to separate enough of the files that they are useless now.
 
"In my case I didn't notice the mistake until a full day after it happened and probably did at least one defrag that previous evening. "

Dang! That'll toast success.

Typically what's able to be 'saved' are 'simple' files like a photo or a doc .... something that exists in singularity and is not reliant on other files to also be intact.

You likely now have close to zero chance of complete recovery as a functioning database....and will have to bite the bullet and start over.

I feel for you.
The most complex architectural drawings I'd ever done [27-unit tilt-slab Motel] were 'drowned' when I was cleaning my dye-line printer [years ago]. Tracing paper does NOT like liquid.

I broke my hand punching the wall [found a stud, naturally].

Took me 2 weeks to salvage what I could and get back to where I was.
 
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