Re: Files and transfer Cabling

Bob Giddings wrote:

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:03:53 -0700, "Kevin W. Miller"
<i09172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Bob Giddings" <bobg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's not that I can't get it done. It's that it ought not to be
so hard, or so cumbersome, or time consuming, to find out that a
tool called "backup" won't backup or that a tool called "file
transfer" won't transfer.

That is the sum total of my complaint. Have a good day.

Bob,
who feels like going out back and shooting a squirrel. Arrrrgh.


http://www.arcatapet.net/bobgiddings

It isn't called "NTClone". It's called "NTBackup". Maybe you don't have a clear idea of your objective? If you're simply looking to backup some data on your drive I don't see how they could have made it any easier than "Edit" - "Select All" - "Edit Copy" - "Edit Paste".


What's the point of backing up on the same drive? If the drive
goes - or the operating system - there goes your backup. And
Microsoft and others do a good job of hiding essential files so
that only a complete multigigabite backup - or a clone - can
accomplish the task of simply putting you back where you were
before failure.

What I'm trying to do is a complete backup onto cds or dvds.
NTBackup won't do that. Even though the "help" file says it
will. And you don't find that out until you've gone through the
whole process and it can't find your drive. And then, are you
given the option of an alternative destination? Noooo. You have
to start up all over again.

Pisses me off. Again.


You should be able to accomplish that task without requiring detailed instructions on the user interface. Unless, of course, you want big brother to do it for you. If you want to make a bit by bit image of your HD to another HD each time a bit changes on your current HD things are going to be somewhat more difficult. And I don't think you can seriously blame MS for that.

Leave the damn squirrels alone and spend a few bucks on an umbrella to keep the droppings out of your precious coffee. Or remove the tree linbs from above your table. You blinkin' murderer, you.

Sheesh!

Helpful guy that I am I found a website for you:

http://www.webspawner.com/users/whiners/



Thanks for being helpful.

Now step back for a moment - if you can - and just look at what
we are doing here. Right now.

25 years after the introduction of DOS, and 15 years after the
development of it's successor, we are still - STILL - having the
operating system fail regularly in normal use. We are STILL
having to discuss workarounds and arcanities and special tricks
and third party software and handholding and bizarre animal
sacrifices that (might) somehow make it function correctly. In
some small way. For a while. Ye gods.

After 25 years it's getting tiresome. It's not a swell whizbang
game anymore. It's a PITA.

We have had 25 years of the brainiest people around working - or
hired to be working - on this klutz. Billions and billions and
billions, etc., of dollars have been handed over to Microsoft.
And yet it is still regarded as some kind of miracle if we can
get through a year of ordinary use before it blows up on us.

The continued existence of an entire multi-billion dollar
assistance and replacement industry testifies to the basic
screwedupedness of this product.

Certainly if a car, or any appliance, were this fragile after 25
years of development, somebody would have come up with a better
one. Hell, for the money we've all spent over the years, this
thing ought to be rock solid and self-repairing. Something you
can take off the shelf, turn on, and use for 20 years.

Sorta makes you believe in planned obsolescence, doesn't it?

I'm still for cloning. Do a full clone as frequently or infrequently as you like, and then do data backups whenever you want with batch files tied to a shortcut on the desktop.

No matter how I do data backups, I still want a cloned disk ready to go when the main drive fails or gets squirrely. I've got lots of programs, old reference stuff collected over the years from the net, Data CDs and DVDs for stuff like SA and Topo USA copied to the HD, and lots of custom settings for both Windows and all those programs, and hacks to many of those programs - and I don't want to have to reinstall all that stuff when the HD goes south.

At the moment my desktop is protected that way, and I'm hoping the laptop will last until I get back from an upcoming trip, hoping that I get a handle on this laptop USB/Ghost business, and then I'll do the same to the laptop.

But I'm pretty much stuck on Ghost - it's worked flawlessly since about 1996.

--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
.

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