Category: backup
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Backing up your broadband connection with mobile
If you work from home in the UK then you probably have a broadband connection that is carried over a plain-old-telephone wire from the cabinet in the road to your house. You can buy your broadband service from many different providers but it will still be delivered by that fragile copper wire which is owned…
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Android users – you must use an SMS backup app
As a CTO and system admin I know that the three most important tasks are, Make sure that backups are running Make sure that restores are working Don’t forget 1. Therefore I was more than a little surprised to find that when I restored my Android phone the text messages were missing. It seems that…
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[Fixed] Error Using Veeam Agent for Windows Free with a NAS
I have previously blogged about how to back-up home systems to commercial standards. A useful tool for the home user is Veeam Agent for Windows Free. It allows you to make a recovery disk and system image and has a very reliable restore feature. In the small office/home (SoHo) environment the back-up target will typically…
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New year – annual backups
If, dear reader, you have been following my advice on backups then you will, be using OneDrive to sync your Documents to the cloud. This gives you a real-time copy of everything in case you use your laptop and the ability to access documents from many devices. be using File History with a big NAS…
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How long does it take to reset Windows 10?
My own laptop has broken so I needed to borrow a new one from work. I took a pre-used Microsoft Surface 3. After I had transferred my data and applications it began behaving strangely. I ran and found that there were errors. Therefore I decided to reset the Microsoft Surface 3. “Reset” is a feature…
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Adding a MicroSD card to a Surface Pro 4
I have a Surface Pro 4 with a 256 GB SSD and I am running a couple of virtual machines for development purposes. Each time I snapshot them it uses more storage and I am running low on space. To increase the storage space I have purchased a 128 GB Kingston MicroSD card these come…
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How to restore a Surface image
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently published a definitive guide to backing up your home computer in which I say that home users should not rely on System Images for system backup because restoring them is so unreliable. This does not apply to corporate users who often purchase large numbers…
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The definitive guide to backing up your home computer
Readers of this blog will know that backup, or more pertainately, restore has been a regular theme. I use my laptop everyday for work and when as is the case every few years the hard drive or motherboard fails then it usually costs me several days labour and stress to get up and working again.…
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Backing up a virtual machine to the cloud
Any virtual machine will be large, probably >10 GB and it changes regularly. To back it up to the cloud I would ideally use a block level back-up solution. That way only the changes get synced up. The catch is that a block level back-up solution needs an agent at both ends and as far…
Dr James Bayley 