[time-nuts] Odetics 325 & 425: File recovery

Rob Kimberley rk at timing-consultants.com
Fri Aug 22 17:28:15 UTC 2008


Forgot to mention they have another program on their web site for FTP back
up called FTPSync.

Rob 

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Rob Kimberley
Sent: 22 August 2008 17:52
To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Odetics 325 & 425: File recovery

For Windows users, I have been using FileSync for a number of years, and
very happy with it. Great for incremental backups to external USB drives.
Got my fingers burnt a few years ago after a hard disk failure, and now
regularly backup my hard drives to three external drives (real belt and
braces solution!!). 

All drives indexed and searchable using Copernic Desktop Search (much
friendlier than the Google and Windows versions) 

FileSync available from http://www.fileware.com/

Rob Kimberley 

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Bruce Lane
Sent: 22 August 2008 14:57
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Odetics 325 & 425: File recovery

Hi, Didier,

	I absolutely agree, and Dave Slack has given me some good
suggestions along those lines.

	Among them was an open-source product called 'rsync.' This is the
link for it.

	http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

	Happy tweaking.

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On 22-Aug-08 at 03:30 Didier Juges wrote:

>The problem nowadays is not the storage, it's the backup software.
>
>I have most of my important data in 4 places: two web sites, main 250 
>GB hard drive and external 500GB Western Digital USB Hard Drive (highly 
>recommended). What I call "important data" is about 30 GB worth of 
>stuff that is typically copied in all 4 places. The problem is keeping 
>everything in sync. Syncing between two local resources (main hard 
>drive and USB hard
>drive) is not too hard, considering the transfer speed that can be 
>achieved, but mirroring the web resources is a pain, partly because of 
>speed and partly because of OS differences in file name rules 
>(Windows/Linux). I have not found the software I wanted (only looked at 
>free/cheap stuff) so I am considering writing my own (Visual Basic).
>
>If anyone has suggestions for free/cheap commercial or FOS software to 
>sync via ftp (Windows <-> Linux), I'll be glad to hear.
>
>Didier KO4BB
> 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
>> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Hal Murray
>> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:46 AM
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Odetics 325 & 425: File recovery
>> 
>> 
>> > 	I'm still picking up the pieces from a major FTP
>> archive crash that
>> > lost me a considerable amount of data.
>> 
>> Disks are cheap.
>> 
>> Many years ago, one of the guys I worked with pointed out to me/us 
>> that it was cheaper to buy more disks than it was to pay us at our 
>> normal sallary to figure out which bits should be saved.  You can do 
>> a lot of handwaving in that area, but that's the general idea.
>> 
>> My straw man for low cost backup is a USB disk.  I'm thinking of a 
>> real rotating disk rather than the typical flash "disk".
>>  The key idea is that after you pull the cable, your system can't 
>> trash the bits.  That is neither software nor fat fingers will delete 
>> anything.  It isn't perfect, but it's close and simple.
>> 
>> 
>> Any interesting bits should be backed up multiple ways.   If 
>> any time-nuts
>> have bits that aren't (well) backed up, please contact me off line so 
>> we can work out some way to add another backup copy to the system.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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