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| Thread ID: 116766 | 2011-03-19 04:50:00 | Thank goodness for backups | wainuitech (129) | PC World Chat |
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| 1187449 | 2011-03-19 04:50:00 | Failures can happen to anyone, any time - just finished having to do a complete backup / reinstall from last night . Why ? Dont know if its coincidence or not :confused: But There was another thread here I was looking at, and it was a slide show of Area51 PC build ( nice work BTW) --- When going to view it, a message poped up saying you need the latest Adobe flash player ?? Ok thought I had it, maybe not-- 10 . 2 . 15 . 32 -- downloaded it, and a few minutes later all hell broke lose . Internet connection stopped, rebooted and crashed twice - totally screwing the reg :mad: Spent a good hour trying to rebuild / fix it, system restore was completely screwed . Thankfully WHS did its nightly backup last night as per usual :wub - dropped last nights image back and sweet as now . :banana Only lost a couple of mails from this morning and a 2 . 1GB of 2 . 2GB download :( Moral -- Backup often - you never know when you will need it, no matter who you are . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1187450 | 2011-03-19 05:54:00 | Yes flash player dropped a trojan onto my XP spare computer, luckily MSE picked it straight away | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1187451 | 2011-03-19 06:00:00 | Oh I always need backups. issue being I just don't have the proper ability to back all my stuff up (curses boarding house's no desktop policy) End result when I accidentally make a new partition table or install ubuntu to the wrong partition is a scramble for help here because of my retarded mistakes :D Nothing vitally important on my lappy anyway. just stuff thats annoying to re code or re download |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1187452 | 2011-03-19 06:02:00 | PHEW!! :clap | tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1187453 | 2011-03-19 06:17:00 | PHEW!! :clap :lol: My words were a "little" stronger than that -- thank F*** Not exacly the way I prefer to test backups for recovery, rather do them when I want. :) Mind in saying that, from memory, never had a WHS backup fail either. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1187454 | 2011-03-19 06:36:00 | :lol: My words were a "little" stronger than that -- thank F*** Not exacly the way I prefer to test backups for recovery, rather do them when I want. :) Mind in saying that, from memory, never had a WHS backup fail either. lol |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1187455 | 2011-03-19 06:43:00 | Oh I always need backups. issue being I just don't have the proper ability to back all my stuff up (curses boarding house's no desktop policy) Portable HDD might be the way IMHO. Or just a series of DVD for the image and a USB stick for your own stuff (less regular downloads which could just be redownloaded). I always have backups. I have redirected "My" folders to a 2nd partition of the main drive. Whenever I sync it syncs this folder to my 2nd HDD. Occasionally I also sync it to my external HDD. Outlook email is also syned by the same way I think. I relocated the folder. I don't think you need to do the export import thingy. You just grab the original PST file. A few laptops can also swap out the DVD for a 2nd HDD. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1187456 | 2011-03-19 06:53:00 | A few laptops can also swap out the DVD for a 2nd HDD. I've got one of those here. (forums.pcworld.co.nz) :badpc: |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1187457 | 2011-03-19 07:34:00 | OMG. Adobe Flash Player is not safe, too? What is safe, then?! |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1187458 | 2011-03-19 07:44:00 | so wait, adobe flash player killed your computer? Doesn't surprise me. I hate adobe so hard. (or was it something else...) |
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