Although I have a NAS, I am looking at additional back-up facilities for
all my RISCOS stuff. Whilst I can copy my RISCOs stuff, along with all the
PC stuff, from the NAS to a large portable drive connected to my PC,
RISCOS filetypes are destroyed. I would, therefore, like to attach a large external drive to my Ra-Pi, and copy on to that.
Now, I can buy a re-certified 3.5" 256G WD Caviar Blue, from CPC for
£10.49,
or,
A 2.5" Crucial MX500 250G SSD for £28.32 from the same company.
The question is, which to go for?
On 29/01/2025 20:00, Stuart wrote:
Although I have a NAS, I am looking at additional back-up facilities
for all my RISCOS stuff. Whilst I can copy my RISCOs stuff, along with
all the PC stuff, from the NAS to a large portable drive connected to
my PC, RISCOS filetypes are destroyed. I would, therefore, like to
attach a large external drive to my Ra-Pi, and copy on to that.
Now, I can buy a re-certified 3.5" 256G WD Caviar Blue, from CPC for £10.49, or, A 2.5" Crucial MX500 250G SSD for £28.32 from the same
company.
The question is, which to go for?
IMHO, SSD everytime. Don't forget to backup your backups though!
By the way, 500GB Crucial SSD for same price on Amazon.
Although I have a NAS, I am looking at additional back-up facilities for
all my RISCOS stuff. Whilst I can copy my RISCOs stuff, along with all the
PC stuff, from the NAS to a large portable drive connected to my PC, RISCOS filetypes are destroyed.
In message <5be6f6d18dStuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk>
Stuart <Stuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:
Although I have a NAS, I am looking at additional back-up facilities
for all my RISCOS stuff. Whilst I can copy my RISCOs stuff, along with
all the PC stuff, from the NAS to a large portable drive connected to
my PC, RISCOS filetypes are destroyed.
Go to https://davehigton.me.uk and look at DBack and DRest.
You will need to format it as FileCore format, as otherwise using
FAT32FS will have same issues as the network filing systems described
above. This will limit you to only formatting the drive to 256GB in
practice.
What I would do is get 3 of the 256GB dives for the same price as the
SSD, and rotate them so you have 3 backups of various ages (useful you
don't notice you have deleted an important file until after a backup).
And make sure one of those drives is kept in a completely different
location in case of disasters.
Don't forget to backup your backups though!
That's what I regularly do - the backup as well as the forgetting.
My solution however is quite pricey: 500 Gbyte at pCloud, which costs a few hundred pounds, but which will never rust or die.
From time to time, I use my Windows computer to copy the RISC OS backups on the NAS to pCloud, from which I can access them on my 4té2 (directly
backing up from RISC OS is too slow). And of course, I benefit from all the other features of pCloud. But yeah, it's not exactly cheap, albeit a one
time investment.
Paul
Don't forget to backup your backups though!
In article <f18bffe65b.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
In message <5be6f6d18dStuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk>
Stuart <Stuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:
Although I have a NAS, I am looking at additional back-up facilities
for all my RISCOS stuff. Whilst I can copy my RISCOs stuff, along with all the PC stuff, from the NAS to a large portable drive connected to
my PC, RISCOS filetypes are destroyed.
Go to https://davehigton.me.uk and look at DBack and DRest.
Are there any advantages over the functionality of !SafeStore, which I already use?
In message <5be73df3f3Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
In article <f18bffe65b.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
In message <5be6f6d18dStuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk>
Stuart <Stuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:
Although I have a NAS, I am looking at additional back-up
facilities for all my RISCOS stuff. Whilst I can copy my RISCOs
stuff, along with all the PC stuff, from the NAS to a large
portable drive connected to my PC, RISCOS filetypes are destroyed.
Go to https://davehigton.me.uk and look at DBack and DRest.
Are there any advantages over the functionality of !SafeStore, which I already use?
I can't answer that because I don't know SafeStore. I flagged it to
you because it would appear to do what you want - backups (and restores!) with all the metadata exactly retained.
And if SafeStore doew what you want, why are you looking for something
else? What facilities are missing?
In article <9d3a80e75b.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
In message <5be73df3f3Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
In article <f18bffe65b.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
In message <5be6f6d18dStuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk>
Stuart <Stuart.winsor@orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:
Although I have a NAS, I am looking at additional back-up
facilities for all my RISCOS stuff. Whilst I can copy my RISCOs stuff, along with all the PC stuff, from the NAS to a large
portable drive connected to my PC, RISCOS filetypes are destroyed.
Go to https://davehigton.me.uk and look at DBack and DRest.
Are there any advantages over the functionality of !SafeStore, which I already use?
I can't answer that because I don't know SafeStore. I flagged it to you because it would appear to do what you want - backups (and restores!)
with all the metadata exactly retained.
And if SafeStore doew what you want, why are you looking for something else? What facilities are missing?
If you read my original post, I wasn't looking for backup software, I was pondering on whether to back up to SSD or spinning rust
... because, when you backed up to the PC, "RISCOS filetypes are
destroyed". So I'm offering you something that will back up to, and
restore from, a PC while keeping the file types etc. prefectly intact.
In article <vne6iu$2i0ob$1@dont-email.me>,
druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
And make sure one of those drives is kept in a completely different
location in case of disasters.
In my case, the obvious place would be my shed, which is around 30ft from
the house, insulated and heated. When back ups were smaller and I used CDs and later DVDs, they were kept in "lock n lock" plastic boxes, in there.
In my case, the obvious place would be my shed, which is around 30ft
from the house, insulated and heated. When back ups were smaller and I
used CDs and later DVDs, they were kept in "lock n lock" plastic
boxes, in there.
I think that is a bit close when considering fire, flood, wind damage or burglary. I try to aim for somewhere at least 30 miles from the house!
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