Backing up your files

[+Brainless]

Remember Dave's advice a little while ago about backing up your files?

 

Well I bought a FreeCom moblie drive to backup all my files. I ran the programme with no problem and got the 'files successfully backed up' notice. I thought good now I've backed up my entire system so nothing to worry about eh!

 

I put the drive away safely and got it back out again thursday to run the 'incremental' backup. I'd divided all the drives into their own drive number so I just went to the saved drive and ran the incremental programme. No problem it said all backups sucessfully completed. Then after reading here you could run programmes directlly form the moblie drive tried to open WOE this way and guess what... It didn't work. I got CTD.

 

So I started to investigate and when comparing the properties of the original found the so called sucessfully backed up files were in some cases only 99.9% completed and not all files had in fact been copied.

 

I spent the best part of my weekend reformattting and manually copying my entire system onto the Freecom mobile drive.

 

This is now foolproof ( I think ) and I can run Thirdwire and all other sims from the external drive plus I have my entire system backed up.

 

Moral of this tale is don't trust automated computer messages the're not always right! I expect you computer buffs know this already but if you've recently backed up your files you might want to check that they have actually been backed up.

 

Don't you just looooove these machines!!

[DWCAce]

It's always good to check, check again, and yet a third time. Thank you for posting again on 'Back Up Awareness'.

[JediMaster]

Yup. Never trust that "done" = "good."

[DWCAce]

A new ribbon. Maybe I'll make up a pin for those who have suffered...