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PHILADELPHIA – Past meets present on Friday as part of the annual Red vs. Blue Intrasquad meet for Penn gymnastics. Not only will the meet serve as a chance for the team to get into full uniform and compete against each other in-house to warm-up for the upcoming season. The great success of the 2011-12 season will be celebrated following the meet when head coach John Ceralde and his team accept their 2012 Ivy Classic championship rings in front of Penn gymnastics alumnae and supporters.
This will be the first showing 2012-13 for the defending ECAC and two-time Ivy Classic champions. It also gives Ceralde a chance to see what his roster is shaping into before winter break. The Quakers will hit the mat for warm ups at 4 p.m., with the meet set to begin at 6 p.m. Because of the atmosphere, and the fact that this is an exhibition meet for Penn, spectators will have a chance to get an informal close up of a collegiate gymnastics event.
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Financial markets are driving the world towards another Great Depression with incalculable political consequences. The authorities, particularly in Europe, have lost control of the situation. They need to regain control and they need to do so now.
Three bold steps are needed. First, the governments of the eurozone must agree in principle on a new treaty creating a common treasury for the eurozone. In the meantime, the major banks must be put under European Central Bank direction in return for a temporary guarantee and permanent recapitalisation. The ECB would direct the banks to maintain their credit lines and outstanding loans, while closely monitoring risks taken for their own accounts. Third, the ECB would enable countries such as Italy and Spain to temporarily refinance their debt at a very low cost. These steps would calm the markets and give Europe time to develop a growth strategy, without which the debt problem cannot be solved.
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After numerous flip flops between what Obama said on the campaign trail and after his inauguration and even during his Presidency, why would anyone trust him on his word? A partial list:
CHANGE #1: Despite Pledging To Withdraw American Troops From Iraq Immediately, Barack Obama Now Says He Would "Refine" His Policy After Listening To The Commanders On The Ground
CHANGE #2: Despite Pledging To Accept Public Financing, Barack Obama Has Reversed His Position And Opted Out Of The System
CHANGE #3: Barack Obama Is Backtracking On His Support For Unilaterally Renegotiating NAFTA
CHANGE #4: Barack Obama Is Considering Reducing Corporate Taxes Despite Having Called Corporate Tax Cuts "The Exact Wrong Prescription For America"
CHANGE #5: Barack Obama Has Changed Positions On The D.C. Handgun Ban
CHANGE #6: Barack Obama Has Shifted From Opposing Welfare Reform To Celebrating Welfare Reform In A Television Ad
CHANGE #7: As A Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama Criticizes The Administration's Energy Policy Despite Having Voted For The 2005 Bush-Cheney Energy Bill
CHANGE #8: Barack Obama Has Shifted Positions On Nuclear Power
CHANGE #9: Obama Adviser Said Obama Was Not Opposed To An Individual Health Care Mandate Despite His Opposition During The Primary
CHANGE #10: During The Primaries, Barack Obama Pledged To Filibuster Any Bill Which Contained Immunity For Telecommunications Companies Involved In Electronic Surveillance, But Now Backs A Compromise Bill
CHANGE #11: Barack Obama Disagreed With The Supreme Court Decision Striking Down The Use Of The Death Penalty For A Convicted Child Rapist Although In The Past He Opposed The Death Penalty
CHANGE #12: Barack Obama Has Backtracked From His Earlier Commitment To Meet With The Leaders Of State Sponsors Of Terror "Without Precondition"
CHANGE #13: After Saying Jerusalem Should Be "Undivided," Barack Obama Has Since Backtracked
CHANGE #14: As A Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama Has Backed Away From His Earlier Support For Normalized Relations With Cuba And Ending The Embargo
CHANGE #15: Barack Obama Is Against The California Ballot Measure Banning Gay Marriage Despite His Assertion That Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman
CHANGE #16: Barack Obama Says That "Mental Distress" Should Not Be Reason For A Late Term Abortion Which Contradicts His Past Extreme Pro-Abortion Views
CHANGE #17: Barack Obama Said He Would Debate "Anywhere, Anytime" But Has Rejected Joint Town Hall Meetings
Change #18: Barack Obama decides to tap the strategic oil reserve.
Change #19: Obama now says he's "open" to oil drilling.
Change #20: Obama flip flops in the same sentence in response to a seven year old girl's question about why he wants to be president
Just recently he flipped on releasing terrorist's prisoner photos, deficit spending and borrowing from China.
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STUART Holden reckons only the unpredictable Lancashire weather has stopped him travelling even further down the road to full fitness.
The American midfielder played his first 90-minute game since September, 2011, for the development squad on Tuesday afternoon in a specially-arranged friendly at Euxton.
It was a big hurdle for Holden who, in playing the full match, allayed any lingering fears over the ankle injury that saw him limp off at Hyde United on Friday night.
But while the 27-year-old insists he is pleased with his progress so far, he admits the recent snow and rain has played havoc with his comeback efforts overall.
"It was another step forward for me, I felt good out on the pitch and to play the full game was great," he said. "It was a big step for me physically and in myself I am feeling good, and now I just want to keep on track and keep progressing.
"The only thing that hasn't helped, would you believe, is the weather. I have had a few games that have been called off so we have had to tweak the programme. "It's going well and the medical team have been keeping a real close eye on me. They have got me working to a very detailed and carefully planned training and rehab schedule." Holden has featured twice for Dougie Freedman's first team in recent weeks, coming on as a substitute against Everton and Sunderland in the FA Cup.
Fans are understandably clamouring for him to be back in league action as soon as possible, but the midfielder may have to wait a while longer before being passed for a regular place in the team.
"I have had great support from my family friends and of course the club and supporters," he said. "The fans have been really good, messages and encouragement, and nice words when I am out and about, so again I would like to thank everyone for that.
"To be back out there and the reception I got from the Bolton fans at both Sunderland and the Reebok, was a really special moment for me - it was a great feeling and we are sticking to the plan and making sure all the boxes are ticked and I am 100 per cent."


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Matadors wait for the start of a bullfight during the festivities of San Roque, patron saint, in the village of Penafiel, Spain. In August hundreds of villages celebrate their patron saints, with bullfights, music and parties on the streets.
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For the fifth time in a row Crystal Space was accepted for Google Summer of Code 2010! We are very happy with this and we hope to give a number of students an enjoyable experience with Crystal Space and also give Crystal Space a nice feature boost.
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Averting Disaster - A Guide To Computer Backups (2014)by Brett Howse on 5/21/2014 9:00 AM EST
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tribunal88 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkAny reason that CrashPlan wasn't considered? Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - link1) "Of course this list is certainly not exhaustive, with many companies now offering online backup solutions. A quick search in your favorite search engine will provide dozens of options. Be sure to choose the one that works best for you."
2) Look at the 5th item on the bulleted list above the paragraph I just quoted... Reply
antef - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkCrashPlan is fantastic. I used to use JungleDisk with S3, but the software was forgotten and became problematic and buggy. I gave it up and switched to CrashPlan. The client is easy to use and backups seem to happen fast and reliably. Reply
Kenazo - Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - linkCrashplan's friend to friend option is amazing. I have 3 or 4 people backing up to my home NAS, and my personal pictures and important documents all back up to my PC at work. Reply
Haravikk - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkFor most regular consumers, CrashPlan is something I'd definitely recommend; it's pretty easy to use and has unlimited storage, plus if you like you can specify the encryption key that is used (though of course you then have to find a way to keep that safe instead). Given the pricing of cloud storage it's also pretty well priced. I'm sure there are other cloud backup services, but CrashPlan is what I'm using.
Personally though I've gone for the total overkill approach; I have my Mac's main system volume which I'm about to switch over to RAID-5, a Time Machine backup volume on RAID-5, a Synology NAS (no RAID since it's only two-disk), and the NAS is also configured to heedlessly run CrashPlan to backup my files. So I have a total of three redundant copies of my data, albeit one in the cloud that is usually a day or two behind, and would take weeks to re-download, but in the event of a fire burning down everything else I'd rather have that off-site protection.
Still, I'd personally recommend local back-up drive + NAS for most serious computer users, especially if working with that computer is your job, as a single backup isn't enough IMO, as the last thing you want is to be in the middle of restoring your system, only for the backup to fail as well. Reply
NonSequitor - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkBe really careful about RAID-5. It protects very well against a complete drive failure, but drive corruption or a drive that starts returning garbage will trash everything on the disk. You need a RAID level that does double parity or checksums, such as RAID-6 and RAID-Z, to actually protect against almost all hardware failures. Of course it still is not then a backup. Reply
pdf - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkThe bigger problem is that with large modern disks, a drive failure in RAID5 means that you're extremely likely to encounter unreadable sectors trying to resilver a replacement disk. A drive that starts returning garbage during regular operation should cause no problem with any competent RAID implementation though.
Also, RAIDZ is single-parity - RAIDZ2, RAIDZ3, etc are the multi-parity versions. The other bonus with ZFS-based RAID implementations is full checksumming of all data and metadata on-disk, plus COW snapshots, and the latter means it can actually serve the role of a self-contained backup solution, using something like zfs-auto-snapshot to provide granular, aged snapshots of changed data. Reply
Morawka - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linki havent heard RAIDZ recommended for 10 years Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkWhat are you even on about?
ZFS was only widely available in November 2005. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linkGuess that's only eight and a half years then. Reply
patrickjchase - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkZFS RAIDZ implements strong checksums within each drive, such that it can reliably detect if a drive is returning bad data and ignore it. In some respects it's actually stronger than RAID6 in terms of its ability to deal with silent corruption. That's why NonSequitor wrote "double parity OR checkums" (RAID6 is double-parity, RAIDZ is single-parity augmented with strong per-disk, per-chunk checksums).
If you're halfway competent then it's not "extremely likely" that you'll encounter unreadable sectors during a RAID5 rebuild. There's a reason why both good RAID controllers and ZFS implement scrubbing (i.e. they can periodically read every disk end to end and remap any unreadable sectors). If you do that every couple days then the likelihood of encountering a new (since the last scrub) unreadable sector may or may not be high depending on your rebuild time.
For example I have a 5-disk RAID5 array that I use for "cold" storage. I scrub it daily, and rebuilding to a hot-spare takes 6 hours (I've tested it several times, verifying the results against separate copies of the same files), which means that the maximum delay between the most recent scrub and the end of a rebuild is 30 hrs. The scrubs have only found one bad sector in ~2 years, so I respectfully submit that the likelihood of an additional failure within 30 hours of a scrub is pretty darned low. Reply
beginner99 - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkexactly. anything above 2 TB drives becomes really problematic in this regard. With 4 TB drives it's almost guaranteed a RAID-5 rebuild will fail. IMHO if you do RAID, do RAID-1. Reply
patrickjchase - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkRAID1 has exactly the same problems as RAID5 - In the case of silent corruption it can't determine which disk is bad, and it's vulnerable to a single disk failure during a rebuild. The likelihood of such a failure is obviously lower (now you only have to worry about 1 other disks instead of 2 or more) but not hugely so. RAID6/RAIDZ2 is statistically much better until you get up to really high drive counts.
The "big boys" with truly mission-critical data do N-way replication, i.e. all critical data is replicated (n>=3) times on different systems. Reply
jimhsu - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - link+1 to crashplan. For my most important data, I have n+2 backups: n being the number of computers I have (meaning that Onedrive automatically syncs them); 2 being a crashplan online subscription as well as a local crashplan backup. I also have restore previous versions running, and use it on occasion, but don't consider it a backup per se. Reply
pjcamp - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI plowed through all the competitors a few years ago, and Crashplan was the one I selected. It had the cheapest unlimited storage with version history, and the (for me) killer feature that there exists a Linux client. I have a FreeNAS box that I use for media storage. I can mount it as a drive on my Linux machine and the Crashplan client will back it up just as if it were a local drive. There is also an Android client that gives you access to all your files, functioning as a sort of personal Dropbox, without sharing but with better security.
I've had occasion to use my backups a couple of times and found it easy and speedy, much more so than I expected for a cloud service. Reply
cknobman - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkEverything in my house goes to a personally built server onto dedicated RAID storage drives. No accounts other than my personal administrator account have access to do anything but read.
Those drives are then backed up to the cloud via CrashPlan.
Simple, effective, and as foolproof as I can get for now. Reply
uhuznaa - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkOne thing to note with Time Machine: You don't need to use the fancy interface for restoring files. Just browse your backup disk with the Finder (or on the command line), there's a directory for every backup from which you can just copy things over.
To CrashPan: I used that for a while, but found it to be utterly uncontrollable. The log files are a joke, the status mails arrive at random times (or not at all) and are useless ("Files: 117k, Backed Up: 99.9%") and often enough when a backup didn't run for some reason it's impossible to debug because there's no real error reporting. It may work somehow, but it has all the marks of something I don't want to rely on. Reply
NCM - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkYes, that's indeed a big point for Apple's TimeMachine — that and it being included free with every Mac. If necessary you can just go digging into a TM archive and pull out what you need. Reply
SkateboardP - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkHi Brett,
great guide but can you or others please check if the OneDrive backupsolution is throttled and capped at 355kb/s under win8.1 (Desktop)? I read that many people complaining about that. Thanks. Reply
plext0r - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI've been using Duplicati for a few years and it has been good. "It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP (and many more)." It uses rsync under the covers and I use it to backup to my RAID-5 NAS in the basement. I also perform offsite backups (rotate 1TB disks to and from my workplace). Reply
bernstein - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkafter fifteen years of backupping i can share the following:
- user initiated (e.g. all usb, some network/cloud) backups agree with less than 0.1% of the human population (but hey it is better than nothing)
- with consumer hdds, raid5 nas are totally overrated and *in the real world* rarely protect data better than jbod.
- raid6 is better than jbod. but with consumer disks the only real alternative to jbod is zfs (linux md (which all nas employ) + consumer hdds = shaky unless you have a 24/7sysadmin...)
so either build/buy a zfs nas or backup to the cloud. Reply
bernstein - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkor buy insanely expensive enterprise disks Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkAre there any consumer grade NASes with ZFS support enabled by default now? The peanut gallery on yesterday's Synology review was arguing for ZFS being a key reason for rolling your own instead of buying an off the shelf NAS. Reply
questionlp - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkThere's FreeNAS Mini, which is a 4-bay NAS. I'm actually considering getting one to replace my current file server at home. Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkYikes! At $1k diskless, that's well above the typical price for a consumer nas. Reply
bsd228 - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkbut none of them have 16G of ECC memory and a processor at this level, with dual intel gig nics and expansion ports to support a 10G or other parts. It appears to be able to transcode 3 HD streams without the benefit of the acceleration shown in this product. So, perhaps a bit of premium, but not that much. Reply
CadentOrange - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI personally use RAID1 with a 2 bay NAS that's worked fine so far. Granted that I don't have very rigorous needs, but then this isn't for enterprise critical data. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI've had good luck with RAID5 on small scale arrays. The main reason to go to RAID6 is due to the chance of a disk failing during the rebuild process. Consumer NAS typically are not under that much load so the rebuild times are short. In an enterprise environment where disk counts are higher in an array as well as the load on the array, using RAID6 makes sense.
Personally I have an 8 drive RAIDZ2 array in a NAS4Free system that I use at home. Portability and reliability are some of the reasons I went with ZFS. So far it has been purely hands off once I got the system up and running. Admittedly it took a bit longer to get up and running as I'm doing some odd things like hosting virtual machines on the same system. Reply
MrBungle123 - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linkThe reason for RAID 6 is because statistically 1 bit out of every 10^14 bits (12TB) is bad on a hard drive... with all drives operational a RAID 5's parity can compensate for said bad bit, with a degraded RAID 5 the sector will be un-recoverable and you'll lose data. RAID 6 has double parity so even with a drive down if (when) a bad sector is encountered it is still possible to recover the data. RAID 5 is obsolete for large arrays. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linkIf you know what sector is bad in RAID5, you can still recover the data.
The tricker thing is silent corruption where all blocks appear to be OK. There an error can be detected but not necessarily which block contains it. Reply
SirMaster - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkThere is no way around it.
If you are keeping data, you need to budget for 2x that space at a minimum, otherwise you cannot truly afford to keep that much data. Reply
Mark_gb - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI just built my first systen in nearly 20 years. I need a backup system. And so far, despite the fact that I have both a Blu-ray and DVD burners in this box, Windows 8.1 does not appear to be willing to let me just burn a (series of) full system backup disk(s) once a week that I can take anywhere I want.
Isnt this 2014 or is Microsoft still stuck in 1988? Reply
theduckofdeath - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkIt's not a big consumer demand, that's why they are cutting back on backup. There are literally 100's of 3rd party alternatives from $0 up to any price you feel like paying for extra features and performance. Reply
Duckeenie - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkYou almost answer your own question here. Discs in 2014? Reply
zero2dash - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkCrashplan can back up to/from a NAS and/or network drives; it's not baked in to the client out of the box, but there are workarounds to do so. I pull files off a network drive at home, and we back up to our Synology NAS at work on servers ranging from 2003 R2 to 2012. Pre-2008 is more of a PITA (because you have to create a scheduled task), but it's still fairly easy to do. Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkYou can understand me not writing about workarounds. Also this is 100% on Crashplan not sure why they don't add the support it's not very difficult. Reply
NCM - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkThe trouble with CrashPlan, or any of the other remote storage solutions, is that for larger backups you're severely limited by the physics of data transfer. For instance at any given moment we have 1.5-2TB of active business files on our main volume, and depending on the day, at least 15GB to be backed up nightly. However sometimes we have 100-200GB in the nightly backup.
It would take an eternity to upload our initial backup and an only slightly lesser eternity to download it again in case of total loss. When there's one of the big backups to be made it probably could not be completed in one night, even though we have a reasonably fast 50/10 Gbs (nominal) connection. Instead we have multiple redundant backups, and regularly rotate them through off-site storage.
One of the things I've found from painful experience (mostly with Retrospect) is not to use backup software that stores in a proprietary format. There's simply too much risk of the software's recovery process not working as expected, at which point you're stuck. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkGenerally agreed. AWS has an option to do initial data import by shipping a box of hard drives. Any full system image or enterprise level cloud backup system needs to offer physical media import/export options.
If your business's daily new data volume is high enough you can still swamp nightly updates; but disk based options would really extend the level of users who could effectively make use of such services.
Currently for personal data I've got full local backups, periodically rotated offsite USB drives, and document/media files backed up in Amazon's cloud. A full drive image in the cloud would be nice; but the recovery time is just too long. If my parents were running something faster than cheapskate DSL, I'd probably setup a nas box at their house and sync to it; but currently I couldn't do that without crushing their connection. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkDeduplication and compression here would help out but how much is entirely dependent on your data.
Though with such large data sets in a business environment, it sounds like a solution like Commvault, CDP or Avamar would be better suited. They still use proprietary formats but at this level it is hard to avoid to get features like deduplication. Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkAs Kevin G said, deduplication would make that fairly easy.
There's nothing wrong with backups to tape for your situation, but tapes are a pain. Avamar or other backup systems would be able to handle that with ease though. Reply
jimhsu - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkAvailability, capacity, cost: pick two. Sounds like (for a business) that you need an enterprise-grade solution, and if you need next-day availability, crashplan won't be able to deliver that. Crashplan does offer initial drive seeding and backup-to-door: however those also take a week. If a single day of downtime is unacceptable, you probably need something in-house combined with professional services that offer overnight rush delivery -- and that's $$$. Reply
dstarr3 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI took a much simpler approach. I have a hard drive which is just a clone of my entire computer, and I keep it in my desk at work. Once a week, I bring it home, run error checks, and do another clone onto the disk, take it back to work the next morning. I also have a local backup disk for files, a portable hard drive. The benefit is that one of my backups is off-site, and both of the backups are never plugged in during non-use, so there's no threat of power surges killing the drives. I'm only susceptible to fire or theft at this point, and that would have to happen to both my home and my work simultaneously to be a problem. Reply
rooman - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkA drive at work is a good idea; an alternative (work isn't always an option) is to store the cloned drive in a safety deposit box which provides an extremely secure location. One probably wouldn't clone once a week, but once a quarter would protect against the worst case of total data loss. Reply
dstarr3 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkYeah, I considered a safety deposit box, as well, but in some areas (like mine), it's bloody impossible to get one. haha Reply
BeethovensCat - Saturday, May 24, 2014 - linkI did the same - am using SyncToy between my internal data drives and FreeFileSync between my computer and two external HDDs. The external HDD is entirely encrypted with TrueCrypt. I have a couple of external HDDs that are copies of my data drives (leave Windows on C: alone). Then I just take a drive to work once a week or two. Daily syncs (why bother with a backup program, when one can use a sync program?) to an encrypted USB stick. Works well and with 2Tb of HDD costing around 100$ there is no excuse for not having a couple of those. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - link
Overall an excellent article!
Backups using Shadow Volumes should note some of its limitations: you'll need to have enough free disc space to store another copy of your largest file. For example, say you downloaded a 10 GB installed for a new game you'd need to have another 10 GB of free disk space for Window's Shadow volume to back it up. With the move to SSD's, this could be an issue in some cases.
I do agree that RAID IS NOT A BACKUP but when backing up to a NAS, the NAS should be using RAID 1/5/6 etc. A paragraph on the introductory page does go into these points but I've always felt the need to discuss backup reliability in this context. It helps clear up potential questions like 'if RAID isn't a backup, why are you backing up to RAID storage?' The answer is in the same paragraph as RAID projects against disk failure. Just in my experience, I typically need to hammer in the idea of what 'what good is backing up to a hard drive if a hard drive dies?' as the case for RAID 1/5/6 on a NAS. This idea can be obtained from the context of the article but I've found this needs more emphasis in my experience.
The issue of RAID disk failure leads into one topics that I've found missing: media reliability. The article mentions hard drives, USB sticks, optical and the cloud as targets for backup storage. (For consumer usage, I would say it is safe to omit tape but it still exists.) How long the media is stored and its ability to be retained over time does matter. This is more of a long term problem with USB and optical media as after several years, corruption can creep in. Hard drives of course can fail but typically they're in an active environment so that you'd know exactly when it failed. With RAID, it is possible to recover from failed media but once an optical disk rots or a USB flash stick is dead, the data on it is gone. This article does cover the media reliability of the cloud which is unique: you continually have to pay. Stop paying and you lose your backup data. There is one open question though with cloud backups as none have been around for a long time. Issues like outages are also possible with the cloud but so far many of the backup providers have been good in this regard. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkFor the built-in backup options for Windows 7/8 and OS X is there a way to limit the size of the backup without having to partition such that multiple computers can backup to one drive without directly competing with each other for space?
For Time Machine you mention that it'll automatically delay the scheduled backup if the backup location is unavailable. Does Windows 7/8 do the same? I'm thinking of laptops that are always out and about so hopefully they won't throw up distracting error prompts when the network store location is not available. Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI don't have any Windows 7 machines to test, so I can't answer that. Windows 8 has an offline cache though to which allows backups/restores when the device is disconnected:
Advanced Settings in File History
File History allows you to fine tune how it works including:
Which target storage device is used
How frequently files are checked and backed up
How much space is used locally to cache backup versions of your files when the target backup device is disconnected
How long backup files are retained
Which folders in your libraries are excluded from backup Reply
sepffuzzball - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkHave to say...I've been running Windows Server Essentials 2012 since I was sad about WHS going by the wayside, and I love it.
I'm running it in a VM on my ESXi server, it backs up all my clients with no issues. Then the WSE backs that up to a different storage pool (Solaris/ZFS), and then that gets kicked off-site.
Now I just need to find out a cheap solution to backup off-site the ~40TB worth of stuff on the file server (and then the upload speeds to actually back it up!). Reply
coburn_c - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI just lost 6TB to a failed RAID 5 array. Thank you Seagate/China. The RMA drives are malaysian, so maybe that gives hope. Anyway, you can talk backups all you want but backing up 6TB is neither time nor cost economical. Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkBacking up 6 TB is not an issue unless you modify all 6 TB between each backup, and even then it's really not a big deal. You can stand up 6 TB of network storage for not very much money.
It all comes down to whether or not the data is important to you. Reply
Gigaplex - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkBacking up 6TB is most definitely an issue. Local backups require several hundred dollars worth of additional hardware (closing in on $1000 depending on the type of NAS). Off site is even harder, cloud backup isn't even an option so you need some kind of sneakernet. Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkGigaplex, what I'm saying is that it's not very difficult to achieve this. If you have 6 TB of data that's worth backing up, then I assume that data's worth the couple hundred dollars in hardware required to back it up.
Once you move into this kind of data storage requirement, obviously cloud backup is going to get expensive, but there are other options.
You just have to decide if it's worth backing up, or perhaps a subset of the data is worth backing up.
Before you can dismiss any backup, all you have to do is decide how much the data is worth to you. Reply
kamiyo - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkThere's SyncBack which has multiple levels of features, the lowest being free. I guess it's technically not a backup solution, but more of a backup helper, but it allows you to schedule and backup specific files/folders (or whole drives) and much more. It was recommended by a friend Reply
Impulses - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkSyncBack and MS SyncToy are both decent freeware options for the simpler backup jobs. Reply
SeanFL - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linkSyncToy did not scale well to a hundred thousand picture files I had years ago...it starting creeping extremely slow even on incremental backups. Maybe there was some improvement somewhere? Didn't see any new version last time I looked. Reply
dstarr3 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI swear by SyncBack. It's a ridiculously simple way to manage file backups on an external drive. Reply
BeethovensCat - Sunday, May 25, 2014 - linkSyncToy has been reliable for me. But lately I have shifted to FreeFileSync for syncs to my external HDDs. Seems to be faster and work better (sometimes the total file sizes on my internal backup drive and the external HDD differed with SyncToy - set to Echo - never figured out why). I have confidential work files on my external HDD (WD Passports) so I encrypt everything with TrueCrypt. Can afford to loose a HDD, but wouldn't like the data to end up in the wrong hands. Reply
hasseb64 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkFor nonprofessionals: Avoid RAID! Reply
BeethovensCat - Sunday, May 25, 2014 - linkNot so sure that is true. I have 'played' with RAID 0 for the last ten years and never (fingers crossed) had an array fail. Neither HDD or SSD. I try to run Syncs 2-3 times per week to avoid data loss should it happen. Am using the in-built Intel RAID controllers on Asus motherboards. Seems to be very reliable. Reply
gcoupe - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkWell, to be fair WHS 2011 is not yet "defunct". It is in mainstream support until April 2016:
However, I agree that it is a crying shame that Microsoft has left the home server market to wither on the vine. WHS was a good product. WHS 2011 was not the advance over the original that it should have been, because of Microsoft organizational politics. Still, it was a real bargain at $40. Windows Server Essentials 2012 is too expensive for home users to even consider. Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI agree. I Use Windows Server 2012 R2 because I got a license from DreakSpark but there is absolutely no way I'd consider buying that for home server use. I'd probably just run a client version of Windows and use third party programs to handle backups. It's unfortunate that they removed automatic system image backups from Windows 8.1 Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkWHS 2011 with Stablebit DrivePool has been working for me. I plan on keeping it a while, but after that I'll just figure out a way to pretty a regular version of Windows on the machine, and third party central backup programs. I also use my WHS server as a Minecraft server, and media server. Reply
SirGCal - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - link100 GB - $24
Don't you mean 30TB, not 300TB? For Google Drive on 'Consumer Cloud and What I Do' page? If not, then 300TB is for sure the way to go. What a savings... Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkYes I did fixed tyvm! Reply
Guinpen - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkNo mention of options for Linux? Why? Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI mentioned Crashplan has a Linux client. I don't use Linux on my home computers, and neither do most people, so I didn't discuss it for the most part. Reply
wumpus - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkI plan on backing up my cousin's windows computer (I owe him one, otherwise highly not recommended). Best I can tell, the way to do this (especially if you have some handy drives that will store the data compressed, but not uncompressed) is to install Linux on some removeable drives (OpenSUSE looks promising, see below) and then use the dd command to copy the windows drive completely as an image to the Linux external drive (this gives you the option to either copy the entire system back (with everything already installed) or to mount the file with -loopback and copy individual files). Note that you will likely want a compressed linux drive (to save space). This looks easiest with btfs (thus Opensuse, and don't forget the forcing option otherwise the compressor will give up before it hits all that empty space). Using this system for incremental backups requires a bit of programming (but is surprisingly easy with pyfuse).
Quite frankly, the dd "disk destroyer" command is so famous to get wrong (and thus write empty sectors over what you wanted to back up) that I would be afraid to include step by step instructions in something like this. You have been warned.
It would be nice to see if you could back up with something like Anaconda, especially for free. Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkAh sweet I didn't know there was still a GUI method for doing a system backup in Windows 8.1! I thought you had to use wbadmin. I was wondering why the Windows 8.1 recovery still supported system image restores when I thought there was no way to create a system image without the command line.
Anyways for previous versions on Windows 8.1: they're still there! Just the tab is not shown for local drives. If you access a network share you can still see the previous versions of files done with Volume Shadow Copy. Turn on system recovery for all your hard drives (it's on for the system drive as default) and then access your own computer via it's UNC path (\localhost\C$ or whatever other share you want to access). Then when you press properties on folder or file the previous versions tab is present!
Another way to access volume shadow copies of files is to use ShadowExplorer. Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkMore details http://winhowto.blogspot.com/2012/09/windows-8-how... Reply
cgalyon - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkPreviously I used Dropbox to sync between three systems, including my file server, and then periodically do a manual backup to a dedicated backup drive. Recently this failed me for the exact reason stated early in this article: user error. After doing a restore on one of my computers, Dropbox then synced forward and wiped out one of my folders almost completely because the computer was restored to an earlier date. I didn't notice for a long time and the rollback period on Dropbox had elapsed. I would advocate a different solution or more frequent archiving. Reply
pirspilane - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkRe. Windows 8.1: 'Unfortunately, you can't add user defined folders here which you do want backed up.' True, but can't you add those folders to a library that gets backed up? Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkYes. You can also create as many libraries as you want and put whatever folders you want in them. Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkHi. I've updated the guide to reflect this and make it more clear. Thanks! Reply
jeffkibuule - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkMy system is a bit more complicated but it works for me:
1) Office documents and such are stored in OneDrive.
2) OneDrive sync to my Synology NAS with BittorrentSync.
3) Time Machine Backup on my Synology NAS whenever I am home.
4) Synology NAS backup nightly to Amazon Glacier with Glacier Sync.
This provides multiple local backups as well as a cloud backup that's mostly automatic. I don't directly back up to the cloud from my MacBook Pro simply because when I am out an about, internet connection usually sucks too much to bother. Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI didn't really mention Glacier, but it's easily the most cost effective cloud storage. Obviously it has it's drawbacks but price sure isn't one of them. Are you happy with Glacier? Reply
SeanFL - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linksome have found Glacier pricing difficult to figure out. I have about 100 gig in pictures that I wanted to backup but was warned on some photo forums that the per item pricing can get costly and I should zip by year or some other form so not as many individual files were transferred. Sounded like too much human interaction so I passed on Glacier inside my Synology NAS for now. Reply
dado023 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkhow come nobody mentioned https://copy.com?r=uABGaD ?
You get so much space, especially if you invite people to it, atm i have 62GB, and i will get more if you use link above, plus you get 5GB via referral link.
I use it for my photos, this way i deliver photos to my client via public link. Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI use Windows Home server, with DrivePool to duplicate data across random drives. The automatic backups work great - and it stores backups for the last 3 days, a backup from 3 weeks ago, and one from 3 months ago, for each PC in the house. it works perfectly, and I never have to think about it, and pulling out data from a backup is easy. Reply
ander111 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkOkay, let me see if I understand this clearly: A "backup" is when you copy your important data to a different storage device, so that if anything happens to your original device, you still have a copy of your data, right? And there are various ways to do this, but they all basically involve copying your data from one device to another. I think even I can understand that.
Still, it's important to have articles on things like this. It keeps writers busy and off the streets—so naturally, crime goes down... Good thinking! Reply
Egg - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI understand why I need revision control for files, but what about say, my music collection, which I just transcoded from WMA lossless to FLAC? No hash based deduplication is going to realize that they're the same... if I had revision control working on that, I would have an extra 10 GB of stuff sitting around... Reply
Brett Howse - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkTwo things I guess. Hash based deduplication is awful on any media, other than to say the file is already copied, so it wouldn't really matter.
Second, most of the backup systems listed allow you to control how many days you keep deleted files. Reply
Mr Perfect - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkFor anyone using the Windows 7 built in backup, have you noticed if it re-schedules backups if it misses a time? My machine is typically powered off if I'm not using it, so hopefully Windows is smart enough to just do the backup as soon as it get the chance. Reply
Stanand - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkFrom my experience, Windows 7/Vista built-in backup doesn't automatically delete old backups when the backup disk becomes full (and it fills up quickly). The user must manually delete old backups by clicking "Manage Space" and deleting the old backups.
That's easy for everybody reading this Anandtech article, but not so easy for my computer novice grandmother.
For novices, I install the free version of Crashplan and set it up to automatically delete old backups every 90 days (Settings -> Backup tab -> Frequency and Versions -> Remove deleted files). Reply
SenilePlatypus - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkThere is one way to get around the Windows 8.1 backup limitations. File History also allows you to backup Library locations. So... All you have to do is make any desired backup (folder, drive, etc...) into a library location (right click drive/folder -> Include in library -> Create new library [or choose an existing one]). Reply
johnthacker - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkSpiderOak is another Consumer Cloud backup service that has unlimited versioning with no time limits. Multiplatform support. It is slower than some of these other services because, since your files are encrypted, they don't deduplicate across different users the way that, e.g., Dropbox does. Reply
DeathReborn - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI used to use Acronis for backups to external drives but late last year switched to Macrium Reflect and a File Server housing 24TB of storage inside and a NAS with 12TB.
If you're good with MS-DOS scripts Macrium has a lot of functionality that you can get access to. Not exactly user friendly but very useful. Reply
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkYou neglected to mention one of the best cloud backup solutions - SpiderOak. They ran a promotion earlier this year on "backup day" to give unlimited storage for $120 per year. They support Linux (GUI and headless CLI), Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Blackberry OS. And unlike a lot of cloud backup services, you can back up network locations - so you can run SpiderOak on one computer and back up data from other computers if they're on the same network and have shares accessible. They do versioning and deduplication (and pass the space savings of deduplication along to you). They also don't retain an encryption key to your data as part of their "zero knowledge" policy. They also allow you to specify a local target to use as a local repository so that when you need to restore something, it doesn't necessarily have to pull it down via the Internet, just that local device whether it's a NAS device or another hard drive in one of your computers. It doesn't do image backups, but if you're looking for image backups, just use the built in utility in Windows to create one and back up the location of those files to the SpiderOak cloud. Reply
MrX8503 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI was wondering what backup strategy you were using and I'm happy to hear that its a WHS 2011 solution. I'm rocking the same setup and added time machine support to my WHS to backup macs. Reply
iwod - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkWhat about Bit Rot? I heard RAID doesn't protect you with it and you will basically have two bad copy of the data. Reply
wumpus - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkThe whole point of RAID *is* to protect you from things like bit rot. The difference between RAID5 and RAID6 is that RAID6 protects you from two rotted bits in a single sector (more specifically, two different drives with failures in the same location). You should be able to avoid this with RAID5 by periodically reading the entire drive and correcting any single error you find (called "scrubbing"). Reply
Mr Perfect - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkIt's not really a sure thing with the RAID though. The array has no idea which version is correct, and which one is rotten. The best it can do is take a consensus and go with whatever version of the file the most drives agree is correct. They did an article about bit rot over at Ars Technica, and the author's RAID 5 happily used the rotten version.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014... Reply
bsd228 - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linknot, really, wumpus. The whole point of RAID (minus 0) is to protect you from a disk failure. By itself it does not deal with bit rot at all. On a mirror, who is right? In typical implementations, disk 0 is presumed to have the correct copy. ZFS (and I believe MS's knockoff, ReFS) implemented scrubbing with checksumming to give a means to identifying the correct copy. Reply
beginner99 - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkI use Microsoft's free tool SyncToy. With it you can synchronize folders to anywhere else, like an external hdd. And of course only updates are synched and you can specify in which direction to sync. I use it to backup my media collection. The external hard drive can then be stored off-site (at work). The advantage I see with this is that the media files are copied over and are readable on the backup directly. You can take the external hdd on the road and have your full media collection at hand. With image files you will have to first restore them before being able to use them.
Important documents should be stored in the "cloud". This can be a simple encrypted zip sent by email and it will be stored on the email server (say gmail) or whatever. That was possible like over a decade ago already. Reply
gsvelto - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkI do most of my backups from Linux: I use rsync to sync my home directory and other relevant files outside of /home and ntfsclone to backup my Windows drives. The latter option is definitely slower than incremental backups or somesuch but allows me to restore a Windows installation very quickly w/o need for reinstalling. It's also handy when moving Windows from a hard drive to another. Reply
AlexIsAlex - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkAnother aspect to backups is bit rot. Both on the backup media (are the files in the backup still good?) and on the live media (do I need to restore this file from backup, as it has become corrupted?)
For a decent backup system, I want checkusms stored with the backed up data, and verified regularly. I also want the backup to actually read all files to be backed up from the source, even if they are not supposed to be modified since the last backup, and check that they still have the same checksum. Unfortunately, this takes rather a long time, but I don't see any alternative to discovering months down the line that some rarely accessed files have become corrupted, and worse, been backed up in a corrupted state. Reply
boomie - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - link>Windows 8 fixes that issue, but creates new ones by no longer allowing automated image backups
Well, I didn't think supposed IT pros at anandtech would be so casual as to be afraid of command line.
If you cannot live in this world without regular image backups, who prevents you from adding a task in task scheduler with wbadmin call?
Come on now. Reply
ruthan - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkThere are extended tutorials to Windows native backup setting, but for Winserver essentials, here are very compressed version of descriptions. Could you more explain it - for example - "Once the connector software is installed" - this is big shortcut - after installation is backup set up from server or from local machine?
How is linux / macs backup support, because of this is real different, Windows backup solution isnt now big problem. From my experience - best solution are form Acronis and Paragon, but they have lots of limitations and known issues. Reply
davidpappleby - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkWe have two laptops, and two desktops. Each has a boot drive and a separate physical backup drive for images using acronis. All pictures/music/data reside on the server which has separate backup drives for its OS and data (again with acronis). I'll be looking into S3 again as a result of this article (last time I looked I thought 2tb was too much). My wife has an external drive we use as off site backup of her important data (downside is that that is current only). Reply
Mikuni - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkMega gives 10GB for free, encrypted storage, why wasn't it mentioned? Reply
Samus - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - link+1 for Acronis True Image. Amazing product, I've purchased the newer editions every time a major Windows OS is released (TrueImage 2008, TrueImage 2010, TrueImage 2013, now TrueImage 2014)
I purchased TrueImage 2014 because it introduced integrated cloud backup which works extremely well, and they give you 250GB for the first year free (and $50/year after that.) Since I upgraded from 2013, it only cost $20 for the upgrade to 2014. You can also sneakily use the Intel SSD Migration software as your "upgrade" edition if you happen to have an Intel SSD, essentially getting you the full software and a year of cloud storage for $20 bucks.
The downside is additional storage is expensive, where as Crashplan and Carbonite have what are virtually unlimited plans starting at $100, some plans even covering "unlimited" users making it perfect for small business.
Either way, great article. We need to spread the backup knowledge so everyone does it, because I think the reason most people don't backup is because they don't know how. Reply
bsd228 - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkBrett- the primary con of cloud services that I think must always be kept in mind is the consequence of your provider going out of business. We've seen this before, and so long as we see newcomers offering unlimited storage cheap as an initial lure to get customers, we'll continue to see it. If it's just your backup, then the cost is the effort required to identify another and get the first full dump done. If we're in the 100s of gigs and beyond, that is significant. So my philosophy is to pick a stable vendor who is making a profit on me, not finding the one offering terms I can exploit. Generally this means pricing based on data size, and a preference to very stable firms like Amazon or Google. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkI wish they would provide a way for families to store each others data encrypted so they could provide for their own disaster recovery. Reply
RoboKaren - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkIt's called Crashplan. Backing up to another person's (friend's, family, etc.) drive is a free option. Reply
easp - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkNotebook users should really, really, have a networked backup target as part of their mix.
External HDDs don't really cut it for Notebook users, unless they regularly "dock" with a monitor or USB hub connected to the drive. Some people do, but I know many many that don't, and while they may have the best of intentions, they will not remember to hook up the external drive on a regular basis.
A network target on their LAN will ensure that automatic backups happen in the course of regular use. A publicly accessable network target, like Crashplan Cloud, or AWS Glacier, or even Crashplan's PTP with portmapping or UPnP enabled, allow automatic backups to happen whenever they have an internet connection. Anything less is a disaster waiting to happen. Reply
Z15CAM - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkSo a 1.32MB DOS app named GHOST.EXE writing to FAT32 is no longer applicable - As if. Reply
Z15CAM - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkYou can't migrate BackUp's over Networks thru GUI using Symantec's Ghost Counsel. Reply
Rogatti - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkAlready in the linux world:
ISO for DVD
$ dd if=/dev/sr0 of=imagem.iso bs=2048 ##(if=dvd unit - of= name.iso)##
http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.... Reply
Z15CAM - Thursday, May 22, 2014 - linkAlready in the Linux world:
NO the DOS World Reply
SeanFL - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linkOne issue I had with dropbox, box, or copy is they all wanted to setup their own directory and do the backup from there. If I have a well organized set of drives with various folders and subfolders, I'd like to be able to choose what to backup and skip (as I can do in Crashplan). Have any of the cloud ones mentioned above made it so you can choose your own directories to backup? Reply
mrweir - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linkIf you purchase the OS X Server app ($20) for one of your macs, you can enable networked Time Machine backups for the other macs on your network. I have an external drive connected to my iMac that my wife's Macbook Pro backs up to wirelessly.
While it's not technically "built-in" and does come at a cost, it's not "third party" either. Reply
metayoshi - Friday, May 23, 2014 - linkI have been using Acronis for years to backup my main OS drive into my data drive and then do a copy of the whole data drive onto an external hard drive.
I switched to Windows 7's built-in backup tool once to replace Acronis to see if I could just have a free tool. Well, I corrupted my Windows 7 OS once, and after I restored the image, a ton of programs didn't work, including Microsoft Office. I tried uninstalling an reinstalling some programs, but for some reason, there were still some things messed up. I had to do a clean install of Windows 7, and I vowed to never use the Windows 7 built in backup ever again. Since my Acroins version was old at the 2009 version, I went ahead and got the 2013 version, and now that's what I have for backups. I have had to restore images from Acronis before (the 2009 version), so I know I can at least trust them.
I'm not too fond of using the cloud to backup files. I used to put some non-private files on megaupload, and we all know how that went - goodbye megaupload. Now I just fear any sort of cloud storage as a backup - I simply use it for syncing, and then I back up my cloud data locally.
I also tried a NAS once to backup both mine and my girlfriend's computer, but that WD MyBook Live (before they went to this whole MyCloud thing) ended up dying after a random power outtage we had. Granted, it was a single drive nas box, but I thought I could live with it. Nope, my external drive has been my main backup source ever since. It sure isn't any sort of advanced backup solution, but it does the job for me. Reply
KPNuts - Saturday, May 24, 2014 - linkGreat article learnt a lot as I just copy my documents onto USB two hard drives on a weekly basis one kept in my computer bag the other in the office. I have a MacBook Pro and an iMac with files shared between so its a bit of a nightmare to keep track of the most up to date ones.
A question; would things be easier if I invested in a TimeCapsule and used it with TimeMachine? would TImeMachine work with both computers on the one TimeCapsule or would I have to have one for each machine? if I need two then it starts to get expensive
Look forward to getting so useful feedback to decide which way I should go Reply
Brett Howse - Saturday, May 24, 2014 - linkYou can backup multiple machines to a single Time Capsule so that won't be an issue. Reply
KPNuts - Saturday, May 24, 2014 - linkthanks Brett Hoswe think thats the way i'll go then as its personal stuff and i have no real need for cloud storage My off site hard drive will be there and if I get broken into or theres a flood or fire Reply
titanmiller - Saturday, May 24, 2014 - linkJust putting in a plug for Backblaze. Great service. I store about 1.5TB on it for $3.96/month. Reply
Kvanh - Saturday, May 24, 2014 - linkIf you use full disk encryption on your computer make sure your NAS/local drive backups are encrypted as well!
I turned off Time Machine and switched to using CrashPlan for both local & cloud backups. I get the the same every 15 minute snapshot as Time Machine but I found crashplan more reliable.
I also use Super-Duper! to make a boot drive clone nightly.
While my main storage is RAID-5, the external drive I use for backups is RAID-0. With the redundancy of the RAID-5 and offsite of crashplan I figure the risk of losing the local backup is acceptable. I'm not in dire need of an infinite timeline of files, the important ones are in the offsite backup anyway. So losing a year of backups and starting over with new drives is no biggie. Reply
nytopcat98367 - Monday, May 26, 2014 - linkgreat article Brett Hoswe. i've been using shadow protect software to backup my desktop pc, the C: drive to a 2nd internal drive for about 6 years. it never fails. i have 23 GB on my main drive which takes 12 minutes to backup. OS windows 7. Reply
Stylex - Monday, May 26, 2014 - linkI use windows8.1 and DriveBender to pool my drives, ala WHS as my NAS. Awesome thing about Drive Bender is that it stores the data in NTFS so if something craters I can still grab the data off the drives without worrying about RAID. Also, selective folder duplication across drives is awesome. Some stuff needs backup, some stuff does not. Reply
Conficio - Monday, May 26, 2014 - linkI'm less looking for a backup tech, more for an archive tech. I want to put my data (photos/documents/PDFs) onto a server that can index them for meta data and full text search and ultimately off load the files onto DVD/bluRay disks for long term storage.
I'd expect the meta data index to be fully backed up onto the cloud and the files being kept safe on media.
Any pointers? Reply
HachavBanav - Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - linkNot a single word of my current UNLIMITED ONLINE BACKUP solution....$50/year
http://www.backblaze.com/partner/af2141 Reply
Brett Howse - Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - linkExcept this:
Here is a list of several vendors offering their own take on cloud backups:
◾ Arq
◾ Backblaze
◾ Carbonite
◾ Cloudberry
◾ Crashplan
◾ JungleDisk
◾ Mozy Reply
nagi603 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkAnother one to consider: unRAID. It uses filesystem-level RAID-ing, with one parity disk. The biggest pro is that if two disks fail, you get to keep your data on the other disks, as opposed to having to resort to very expensive and not fully effective specialist recovery services with RAID-5. You can expand the cluster to (IIRC) 23 drives max, with a separate cache drive if it seems too slow for you. The cons are: it's not free, and you have to build your own NAS for it. But so far it turned out to be best for me. Reply
7Enigma - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkI keep it simple. Once every month or 3 I'll backup my local TB media drive on my main computer to an external 2TB drive. The data is now duplicated and not in danger of electric surge. Fire/flood/etc. still not protected but OK.
About every 4-6 months I'll take the 2TB to my parents house and backup the new files to their media computer. That takes the danger of disaster out of the equation. Unless both houses suffer catastrophe (we are only ~30miles away from each other....) there is little loss of data.
Since this is all mechanical HDD's I'm wondering peoples thoughts on recopying files? I just continuously add and update the files but never "refresh" the drives. Is this something that should (very infrequently) be done? i.e. format a drive then reload with the same files?
Good article. And people DO NOT think it won't happen to you. I was luckily able to recover a coworkers computer after a power outtage. Fried his PSU, but fortunately stopped there. I was able to grab his family media without issue. They had NO backup, nothing. You would have thought after this they would take my advice and backup? Nope. I doubt they will be as lucky next time. Reply
rickydlam - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkGoogle Drive is $1.99/month for 100GB now. Reply
Archipelago - Saturday, June 07, 2014 - linkand from what I can tell, Google Drive does offer versioning through the "manage revisions" feature. Reply
Thrackerzod - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI back up all my irreplaceable stuff (family photos and home movies for example) on LTO tape. Got a Dell SCSI LTO2 drive for next to nothing and the tapes are dirt cheap and last decades. LTO1 tapes are so cheap I even use them for less important stuff like backups of all my Steam game installers. Tapes are certainly not the most popular solution for consumers but for long term archival use I've yet to find anything better. Reply
Hauken - Saturday, May 31, 2014 - linkTime Machine is simple yes, but you can't boot from it. And if you're on a new system, needing files from an old backed up system, it gets awfully problematic. Reply
MDX - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkI wish there was a backup service that was immune to national security letters, but alas. Mega.co.nz will have to do for now. Reply
pslind69 - Monday, July 07, 2014 - linkWhy No mention of StorageCraft ShadowProtect? 😩 Also, one has to figure out which data is really important enough to backup in multiple ways. A list of op just back up everything. All Their personal documents, wedding pictures, and all their movies, tv series, music etc. All those entertainment media can be recreated from originals or redownloaded, so why even back them up. I think most people do that because if disaster hits, they couldn't remember what they have lost, so they back up everything unnessecary file.
Instead, include a list of all your easily recreatable files (with hashes) in your important backup that is replicated offsite, to cloud etc. That way you can easily go back and see that "Ohh I lost my Days of Our Lives TV folder" and then just redownload or rerip the dvds. So much space saved by not backing up unimportant data you could easily recreate. Reply
Click4Support Complain - Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - linkI was very pleased to find this. I wanted to thank you for this useful information !! . Reply


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Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) further increased revenue and earnings according to plan in the first quarter of 2011, reconfirming the company's sustained growth path. Product revenue in the first three months climbed year-over year by 12 percent, to €164.3 million, while Group revenue grew by 9 percent to €272.6. Operating income (EBIT) surged by 29 percent to €60.2 million. The cost synergies arising from the merger with IDS Scheer AG have had a particularly positive effect. Net income jumped by 43 percent to €40.0 million, and earnings per share were up to €1.41. The revived demand for IT, noted at the CeBIT trade show, was confirmed in the first quarter. During the year, the company expects an increase in process innovation projects and affirms the growth forecast for the full year 2011, published in January.
"The successful integration of IDS Scheer AG is reflected in every aspect, not least in the Q1 2011 results. As a technology leader in IT-based business process optimization, we have established a sustainable position in the global market, which we will continue to expand through organic growth and targeted acquisitions," stated Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG.
Business lines see growth in product business
The Business Process Excellence (BPE) business line—which encompasses revenue from licenses, maintenance, and services for all integration and process software products (webMethods and ARIS) since the merger with IDS Scheer AG—achieved growth of 13 percent (10 percent at constant currency) in Q1 2011, with total revenue of €123.9 million. The pure product business revenue climbed 14 percent to €79.4 million, 11 percent at constant currency rates. This is a significantly above the 6 percent growth rate reported in the fourth quarter 2010. Customer interest in IT solutions for business process optimization rose substantially at this year's CeBIT trade show, affirming Software AG's strategy of positioning itself as an innovative market leader in the growth market of process software. Software AG maintained high growth rates in the innovation friendly U.S. market and could extend this above average sales performance to Brazil and Germany.
During the quarter under review, the Enterprise Transaction Systems (Adabas, Natural) business line showed a substantial increase in sales. In the product business, revenue of €79.1 million for licenses and maintenance exceeded that of the previous year by 10 percent. Licensing revenues achieved €30.4 million, an increase of 19 percent over Q1 2010 (€25.6 million). In the first quarter, the business line's total revenue amounted to €96.8 million—9 percent (5 percent at constant currency) higher than the previous year's total of €89.1 million. This has laid a solid foundation for the business line to achieve its objectives for the full year 2011.
Revenues for the IDS Scheer Consulting business stabilized at the previous year's level with €51.9 million. Utilization of the consultants has improved over the previous year as has the business line's contribution to earnings. More expert process consultants are being hired to handle the increased orders.
Operating results confirm successful acquisition strategy
The increased business volume in product sales and the greater contribution of products to total revenue in comparison to the previous year have positively influenced earnings. Above all, the cost synergies from the merger with IDS Scheer AG are becoming obvious in fiscal year 2011; in 2010, they were still affected by restructuring costs. Furthermore, Q1 2011 earnings, in comparison to the previous year, continued to benefit from a weaker Euro—an advantage that is not likely to repeat itself in the remaining quarters of 2011. This has led to a 29.2 percent increase in operating results (EBIT) to €60.2 million (2010: 46.6 million). Profit after tax jumped by 42.9 percent — an even more significant growth rate. Interest expenses decreased after rapid debt reduction, according to plan, and financial results improved by €3.1 million to €-1.5 million (2010: -4.6 million). A tax rate of 31.8 percent likewise was lower than that of the previous year (33.4 percent). Therefore, net income increased in the quarter under review to €40.0 million (2010: 28.0 million) and earnings per share climbed to €1.41 (2010: €0.98).
"One year after the merger with IDS Scheer AG, the new corporate structure's impact on profit is becoming fully apparent. Economies of scale and internal process optimization are reflected in much improved cost ratios," declared Arnd Zinnhardt, Software AG's CFO. "The EBIT margin is much higher than last year, supporting our goal of continual improvement toward a margin of 30 percent. "
In the first quarter of 2011, the company generated free cash flow of €49.1 million (2010: €59.8 million). Net debt was reduced in the quarter under review by €45.6 million to €121.6 million; a year ago this figure stood at €247.7 million. As of March 31, 2011, the equity ratio amounted to 49.5 percent (previous year: 39.6 percent).
Annual Shareholders' Meeting, May 5, 2011
A total dividend payout of €37.0 million or €1.30 per share (2010: €1.15) for fiscal year 2010 will be proposed at the shareholders' meeting on May 5, 2011. Moreover, a motion has been proposed recommending a 3-for-1 stock split (each existing share will be converted to three new ones). The share price has continued to increase since 2003 and is now well over the €100 mark and the stock split is intended to achieve a more convenient trading level for the retail investor.
The operating business demonstrated a good start to the new fiscal year with sales increases in both product areas underpinning the full year growth targets. The increase in profit in the first quarter of 2011 was due largely to the cost synergies resulting from the merger with IDS Scheer and the continuing weakness of the euro (compared to the previous year). On this basis, the company affirms the forecast for the full year 2011 that was published in January, according to which total revenue will grow by 5 to 7 percent, at constant currency, and net income will climb by 10 to 15 percent.
Key Figures (IFRS, unaudited)
in millions of Euros
∆ in %
Total revenue
- Product revenues
- BPE business line
- ETS business line
Net income
Earnings per share (EPS) (in €)*
Free cash flow
Net debt
- Employees in Germany
* Weighted average number of shares outstanding (basic) 28.443.602
** Full time equivalent
About Software AG
Software AG is the global leader in Business Process Excellence. Our 40 years of innovation include the invention of the first high-performance transactional database, Adabas; the first business process analysis platform, ARIS; and the first B2B server and SOA-based integration platform, webMethods.
We are unique in offering the world's only end-to-end – and easiest to use – business process management (BPM) solutions, with the lowest Total-Cost-of-Ownership. Our industry-leading brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas, Natural and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a unique portfolio for: process strategy, design, integration and control; SOA-based integration and data management; process-driven SAP implementation; and strategic process consulting and services.
Software AG had revenues of €1.1 billion in 2010 and has more than 5,600 employees serving 10,000 enterprise and public institution customers across 70 countries. Our comprehensive software and services solutions allow companies to continuously achieve their business results faster. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW).
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Many recognize Sascha Radetsky from starring in the popular 2000 American teen drama film Center Stage, where he played Charlie. He also appeared in the hit Mandy Moore music video "I Wanna Be with You," from the movie's soundtrack. Radetsky had leading roles in the PBS television movie Home at Last, and the NBC television series Midnight Caller. Currently, Radetsky has been working on set in New York City for a new ballet drama series, Flesh and Bone, which is expected to debut on Starz in 2015!
|Scene from Center Stage
Along with Sascha Radetsky, other special guest appearances during Colorado Ballet's Summer Intensive Program will include Stella Abrera, Dana Benton, Gil Boggs, Erica Fischbach, John Gardner, Domenico Luciano, Valerie Madonia, Amanda McKerrow, Judy Rice, Igor Vassine, Dominic Walsh, and Sharon Wehner.
For more information regarding Summer Intensive 2014 click here: http://coloradoballet.org/academy/summer


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This article was published 9/8/2014 (1108 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
After racially charged Facebook comments made by Lorrie Steeves, mayoral candidate Gord Steeve's wife, resurfaced yesterday, Althea Guiboche was fed up.
Lorrie Steeves wrote that she "is really tired of getting harrassed (sic) by the drunken native guys in the skywalks," as a status on her personal Facebook page in 2010. A screen-grab of the status popped up on Twitter Friday from a little-known Twitter user named @DarlingDarleneJ and went viral.
"I'm just so sick of it. There's reasons why these people are out there and... a lot of it has to do with a breakdown in society. I wouldn't want to go through what they've had to gone through," Guiboche said.
Rather than fire back at Steeves with more rhetoric, Guiboche has invited Gord, Lorrie and any other person who wants to help feed the homeless to come provide her with some assistance on the corner of Main Street and Dufferin Avenue on Sunday at 3 p.m. Every Sunday for the last 19 months, regardless of weather conditions, Guiboche has been on the street serving bannock to those that are hungry. She usually serves about 100 people per week and her bannock supply is gone in less than a half hour.
"If they're serious about being sorry, then they should try and make it a priority to come out," Guiboche said.
Lorrie Steeves emailed a news release to local media around 6 p.m. on Friday offering an official apology for her earlier words.
"In 2010 while I was working downtown I was regularly harassed for money and often put in a position where I feared for my safety. One day in particular 4 years ago was very bad and out of frustration I vented on my personal facebook page. I feel terrible about these comments I am terribly sorry and apologize," Steeves wrote.
"Words have no meaning if they have no actions behind it," Guiboche said. "If she is sincerely sorry, she will show up — she should up."
Although she extended the invite for the Steeves' to join her serving bannock tomorrow, Guiboche said they can come on whichever Sunday they would like. She has already hosted mayoral candidates Judy Wasylycia-Leis and Paula Havixbeck on past Sundays, while Robert Falcon-Ouellette and Brian Bowman are scheduled to join her in the following weeks.
"When I'm hungry, I'm like a big grizzly bear and I get grouchy. I can't imagine how (the homeless) must feel starving all day, going hungry and feeling weak, and then having people disrespect them on top of it all," Guiboche said.
"We should be helping (the homeless). Winnipeg has made it a priority to address homelessness and her comments are totally against what we're doing."
Guiboche noted the positive impact local events like the CEO Sleepout have had in combating homelessness and stereotyping. A press conference announcing the 2014 CEO Sleepout lineup was held Thursday and Gord Steeves attended. Steeves is scheduled to participate in the sleepout.
Guiboche said she plans to interview all of the mayoral candidates about their stances on homelessness before election day, October 22. She wants to share her ideas about how to better life for the city's most vulnerable.
"I would like to see a recycling program for certain plastics that gives (the homeless)a money option, and gives them something to do all day. They pick up scrap metal all over and that's their source of income. If Winnipeg had a plastics recycling refund program, that would be another option, and the city would be so much cleaner."


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(WBIR-Maryville) In six weeks, a wounded warrior from Maryville went from limping with a cane to running.
Saturday afternoon, friends and family welcomed home U.S. Army Master Sergeant Michael Trost at McGhee Tyson Airport.
It has been more than two years since Trost was shot five times during an attack in Afghanistan. The attack left Trost with many injuries, including the inability to lift his right foot up. The injury makes it hard for Trost to even walk.
However, in January Trost spent time at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The Center for the Intrepid was creating an Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis (IDEO) leg brace for Trost. The IDEO is used to help severely injured patients return to a high level of activity.
Trost returned to the center in February for six weeks to train with his custom IDEO. While there, he ran for the first time since the attack.
"My whole world has kind of turned around. When you're told you're not going to be able to barely walk and then to come back and run... what can I say? It's pretty amazing," Trost said, surrounded by family and friends at the airport.
"Before he was Mike, very outgoing. We love his personality. He's so funny. But now, he's Mike on steroids. He's ready to conquer the world," said Jeri Kravat of Maryville.
Kravat traveled to McGhee Tyson Airport to welcome Trost home.
The Center for the Intrepid also created a finger and thumb for Trost. His right hand lost both during the attack.
"I can just tell what it's done for him internally. More than just the physical but the mental," said Stephanie Trost, Michael's wife.
She went on to say, "It's changed him and it's straightened him up and it's given him a spark back that's been missing for the last two years."
February 19 was the two year anniversary of the attack.


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Security Council Open Debate: Statement by Ambassador Thoms on "The promotion and strengthening of the rule of law in the maintenance of international peace and security"
Germany wishes to thank the Lithuanian presidency for the preparation of this open debate and the Secretary-General for his instructive briefing.
At the outset, we would like to align ourselves with the statement made by/to be delivered by the delegation of the European Union (EU).
Mr. President,
As a country that experienced the disastrous consequences of disregarding the most basic rules and standards Germany today strongly reaffirms its commitment to support all efforts to strengthen and promote the Rule of Law as an essential contribution to peace and security. Strengthening the rule of law is a priority in our foreign policy, both bilateral and multilateral. Within our conflict prevention and management activities we are currently providing rule of law assistance in a number of crisis and post-conflict situations worldwide.
We welcome the growing awareness that Rule of Law and Peace and Security are interconnected and mutually dependent. We also welcome the efforts of the Secretary-General to mainstream the rule of law in all areas of the work of the United Nations and especially the growing focus of peacekeeping and political missions on strengthening institutions for the rule of law.
Mr. President,
Germany pursues a holistic approach in its conflict prevention and management efforts. We apply an integrated set of measures, of which efforts to strengthen rule of law institutions are a key pillar.
Let me just mention three important fields in this regard:
Firstly: In close cooperation with the DPKO Office of the Rule of Law and Security Institutions we support and promote the global exchange of experiences of United Nations-Experts in the area of the Rule of Law. In the past years our Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) and the United Nations System Staff College in partnership organized a "Dialogue Series" for Deputy Special Representatives of the Secretary General in UN Peace Operations and the Focal Point for the Rule of Law. And we are committed to continue our support in the coming years.
Secondly: Support to UN Policing is another key pillar of our engagement in the United Nations. The International Police Conference in Berlin in October 2012 led to the establishment of the Group of Friends of UN Police last year. As was rightly pointed out in the Concept Paper of this debate we need to ensure sustainability of our efforts in the area of Rule of Law in Peacekeeping Missions. Trainings and support to Rule of Law institutions must be made more consistent through the development of standards and guidance, through a more systematic training of police officers and civilian experts in Missions, and through longer term commitments of police contributing countries to specialized areas of training. Germany stands ready to continue its support for OROLSI in this endeavor.
Thirdly: We support the establishment of the Global Focal Point for the Rule of Law, inter alia with a seconded expert. We are confident that the appointment of the Global Focal Point will contribute to the promotion of the Rule of Law by the United Nations through better and faster coordination. In addition, it should make our efforts in the area of Rule of Law more sustainable by ensuring better transitions from Peacekeeping Missions to the UN Country Team in post-conflict situations.
Lastly: Truth-finding-efforts and the fight for accountability and against impunity are crucial for the establishment of lasting peace in post-conflict settings. They are fostered by the work undertaken by national and international justice mechanisms, especially the International Criminal Court.
Mr. President,
Current crises like in Mali, South Sudan and the Central African Republic have shown the importance of building Rule of Law institutions in crisis and post-conflict situations. Strengthening Rule of Law institutions should thus be at the center of our efforts for peacebuilding and conflict prevention.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. - Due to expectant weather concerns, the men's lacrosse game against No. 3 Limestone has been pushed up an hour, and will now start at noon on Saturday, March 3.
After a thrilling overtime victory over Deep South Conference opponent Rollins College on Wednesday evening, the Saint Leo University men's lacrosse team takes to the road for another trek up north to take on a key regional opponent. The Lions enter into
Saturday's showdown with a record of 2-2, while the Saints hold onto an unblemished 4-0 mark.
This marks the sixth contest between Limestone College and Saint Leo University. The Saints hold a 5-0 series mark over the Lions, dating back to the Green and Gold's inaugural season back in 2007.
For the Lions' offensive threats, sophomore attackman Matt Obermeyer leads the team with 11 goals and one assist in three games. Junior George Proechel leads the team in points, having tallied 10 goals and five assists in four games.
Standing strong in cage for the Lions, Patrick Berry claims a .562, making 4-of-4 starts. Junior midfielder Ty Trombley leads the Lions with 18 ground balls, with fellow junior Beau Besancenez close behind with 16. Besancenez, and defensive standout Dylan D'Airo, have each amassed five caused turnovers so far this season.
For the Saints, senior attackman Shayne Jackson has tallied five goals and 12 assists, while junior attackman Riley Loewen has claimed 15 goals and two assists.
In cage for the Saints, Steven Gartelman has accumulated a 2.88 goals against average with a .750 save percentage. Junior midfielder Jake Ternosky leads the team with 15 ground balls, while sophomore defenseman Anthony Starnino and Loewen lead the team with five caused turnovers.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's lacrosse team, visit saintleolions.com.


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So Reed Krakoff, executive creative director and president of Coach, the man who – along with CEO Lew Frankfort – built it into the $4.76 billion brand, is leaving after almost 16 years. Or will be leaving soon: officially, he steps down in June of 2014 when his current contract is up, which also happens to be just after Mr Frankfort retires as CEO (last September he announced he was leaving at the end of this year). Those are the facts; so what do they all mean?
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I'll make it quick:
I need advice for 3 things.
What do you think is the best way of achieving this? Something like this:
var image = document.getElementById('initialSequence');
image.images = ['1.jpg', '2.jpg', '3.jpg', '4.jpg', '5.jpg'];
image.counter = 0;
image.onmouseover = function () {
this.counter += 1;
this.src = this.images[this.counter];
Like an animated .gif but not...
Is there a reason why an animated image wouldn't be suitable? Animated png images allow for decent quality these days.It would also makes the animation more accessible too.
The only thing I was worried about that was for the sake of browser incompatibilities.As far as I know doesn't only Firefox allow for APNG etc? If I could take this route(image actually animated) I'd really prefer to!
What sort of things are you animating? Amimated gif's are fully supported, and are suitable for many types of situations.
They are of graphical characters from a game. So quite intense and I thought that .gif would diminish the quality too much? I guess I could give it a go.Then I would only need to worry about displaying each image, and would only need to change the .gif on mouseover, and they would be a lot smaller/quicker to load.I would like to have them pre-loaded though.
Not necessarily at all. Game sprites are a very good use for animated gifs.
They can be pre-loaded using the same techniques to preload any other image.
Excellent.I'll do that and see how I go.
I don't know javascript at all sorry, but is that what you would use to pre load the images?
Perhaps with something like this:
function preload(images) {
var image = [],
for (i = 0; i < images.length; i += 1) {
image[i] = new Image();
image[i].src = images[i];
Great, thanks Paul. I'll see how I go.Cheers.