Tam, you are such a silly idiot. The same s*** happens to you over and over again, no vacation without hardreset.-a good friend
People who know me know that I never take a notebook to vacations. Instead, I stick to my good ole T3-and it always hardresets in the middle of a vacation. And, as always, I never have a backup on me and have to stick to the 3GhZ PC in my vacation house. An extra handheld for testing stuff was purchased, a big SD card was bought,… . But some things never change.
Indeed, the biggest problem with data security for most of us is not a technological one. It sits in our heads, covered by a few mm of bone and a load of hair. We are simply put-damn lazy.
I had backup software on my handheld and even had a spare cradle-but that didn’t help because I forgot to plug the T3 into the cradle properly. Now don’t say that NVFS would have helped, some other stupid bug would have eventually killed the handheld anyways. But the problem was dead simple: I was too lazy to run the backup software every evening, and also forgot about it.
And this is the point. If backup software should work for you, it needs to become an everyday thing! If you start running backup software only when your vacation starts, you can be sure that you will have problems later on. The program may not be able to restore your handheld(had that once), it may not even be able to complete the backup, or you may simply forget about the 50 Megs of free space needed.
So, in order for backup software to work, you should begin using it when still in your home base. Select a good backup program, and use it every day. Before going to bed, clicking backup should become a standard move like taking your socks off or changing into a pyjama. If you once have that routine established, data security woes will be a thing of the past-that is, unless your SD card breaks down….
Did something like this ever happen to you? How do you protect your handheld’s data?
Tam, du bist so ein Dummkopf. Der gleiche Mist passiert dir jedes Mal, kein Urlaub ohne Hardreset.-toller Freund
Leute die mich kennen wissen dass ich nie ein Notebook mit in den Urlaub nehme. Stattdessen nehme ich meinen guten alten T3 – und habe immer einen Hardreset in der Mitte des Urlaubs. Und ich habe nie ein Backup und muss zum 3GhZ PC in meinem Ferienhaus greifen. Ich kaufte einen extra Handheld für Experimente, eine große SD-Karte, … Aber manche Dinge ändern sich nie.
Tatsächlich ist das größte Problem der Datensicherheit kein technisches. Es sitzt in unseren Köpfen, bedeckt mit einigen Millimetern Knochen und Haaren. Wir sind einfach zu faul.
Ich hatte Backup-Software auf meinem Handheld und sogar ein Ersatz-Cradle – aber es half nichts weil ich vergaß den T3 ordnungsgemäß in das Cradle zu stecken. Sagen Sie jetzt nicht dass NVFS geholfen hätte, irgendein blöder anderer Bug hätte wahrscheinlich trotzdem die Daten zerstört. Aber das Problem war sehr einfach: Ich war zu faul um jeden Abend das Backup-Programm auszuführen und vergaß es auch.
Das ist der Punkt: Wenn Backup-Software bei Ihnen funktionieren soll, muss sie alltäglich werden! Wenn Sie die Software nur nutzen wenn Ihr Urlaub anfängt, können Sie sicher sein dass Sie später Probleme haben werden. Das Programm könnte Probleme haben die Daten zu wiederherstellen (hatte ich einmal), das Backup könnte vielleicht nicht einmal fertiggestellt werden, der Sie könnten vergessen dass man 50 MB freien Speicher braucht.
Um also die Software zum Laufen zu bekommen, sollten Sie damit anfangen wenn Sie noch daheim sind. Wählen Sie ein gutes Backupprogramm und benutzen Sie es täglich. Das Backup anzufertigen bevor Sie zu Bett gehen sollte zu etwas Alltäglichem wie Strümpfe ausziehen oder Pyjama anzeiehn werden. Wenn das zur Routine wird, wird Datenverlust der Vergangenheit angehören – bis Ihre SD-Karte kaputtgeht.
Hatten Sie so etwas schon mal erlebt? Wie schützen Sie Ihre Daten?
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Tam,
I had a hard reset only once in my Palm life (5 years) but lost data many times.
The soft that I started to use is called BackupBuddy VFS it does backup of all files on my T3 to SD card, it does so automatically every night at 2am (by that time I am for sure asleep).
I strongly recommend it, it gives me a true peace of mind.
Regards,
Alex
Most backup apps may have problems with backing up (or restoring) files like Picsel Browswer or Net Front (it’s “hard” to get them into RAM), and most of them crash and the backup failes. I can recommend “CardBackup”, it ignores them and continues the backup.
Although no free backup software offers automatic backups, there is a solution: a free software (InnerBackup, BackupBuddy VFS Free) and “Crony” .
Alex
What’s Crony? –> Crontab (Linux version) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab
Download Crony
I’ve mentioned that having an archive of backups is essential quite a while ago in a posting at Palm Addicts, as well as other places where I’ve been pounding the idea, including my blog. It was during one time when I found that a program which worked perfectly fine a day before crashed on me. I tried to restore the previous day’s backup and the crash was still there. Then, I continued to go back in time until I found one that didn’t cause a crash. That one incident made me quite aware of keeping an archive of backups is essential.
I use Resco Backup. I scheduled it to doe an automatic backup everynight at 2am and every 4 hours it backs up my PIM and email info so I am less likely to loose any thing I work on throughout the day. I try a lot of new software. Maybe too much with out a clean out program and as a result, I have had a few hard resets in my day. Result. The back up on the computer usually contains the problem. But, the 2am backup rarely does. After I restore my 2am backup, I follow that with a restoration of my PIM backup. Now in less than 5 minutes I am good to go. So far.
Pete
I’ve been using BackupBuddyVFS for my full backups, just like Alex describes above; I’ve been using it since I got my Zire 71 lo these many (two and a half) years ago, and I can’t say enough good about it.
Unfortunately, it’s not quite as versatile as Resco Backup appears to be; it can’t, for example, schedule multiple automatic backups of defined filesets. Moreover, like just about all Palm software, it’s not scriptable enough to be worth the effort.
Fortunately, a little ingenuity solves that problem pretty handily. I wrote a couple of tiddly Plua scripts which copy my MemoDB and a few other things to directories on my card.
Crony doesn’t understand how to launch compiled Plua scripts directly, which is a shame, but twenty lines of C gives me a tiny little app whose only purpose in life is to launch something else; Crony can see that just fine, and it’s working out extremely well for me so far.
I’d also note that the Crony download link provided above appears to be returning a 403 Forbidden error. I have a copy of Crony 3.0, which is the latest version, and while I don’t wish to host it for download myself I’d be happy to provide it via email or similar if someone else would like to do so.
Hi Aaron,
please send me the crony files to my email address(you have it;).
Then we can host it here!
Best regards
Tam Hanna
P.s. Whats Plua? I do SmallBASIC very much, but that? Never heard of it before:)-googling right now!
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