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Fail to transfer OSX TimeMachine backups from a current backup drive to a new backup drive
This was my mac osx scenario: Time Machine was using a RAID set (2 external hd of 1Tb each).
I wanted to expand the RAID set with an extra 1Tb disk without loosing my old backups, so I followed this ...
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Where is the file history backup going?
I'm confused by the backup settings interface for Windows 10. I want to create an external backup of my files and all of their versions. I think that's what I accomplished in the "Backup Settings" ...
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Have a multiple drive computer; what drive do i need to image (backup)?
I have a computer with both a SSD and a HDD. The SSD is only used for the OS and everything else that can be stored somewhere other than the C Drive is stored on my second hard drive. Now i know that ...
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Will Windows Backup or any other backup software look for previously backed up files?
I have an external hard drive, and I want to back up my computer to this drive. As I'm doing it for the first time, the following question have cropped up in my mind:
Consider the situation that I ...
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Difference between using Windows Backup and copying each file separately
I have an external hard drive, and I want to back up my computer to this drive. As I'm doing it for the first time, the following questions have cropped up in my mind:
What is the difference between ...
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How do I authenticate my external hard drive?
I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 on my MacBook Air trying to move a directory/folder from my local disk to an external hard drive. But I get an error that says:
Modifying "Remote Disk" ...
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Synology Hyper Backup to external USB drive: Exception occurred while backing up data (Disk I/O error)
I am attempting to backup my entire Synology1 DS415+ NAS volume to an external Western Digital My Book 8 TB USB drive, using Hyper Backup.
The backup worked fine for about 10 hours, but suddenly ...
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What is the most efficient way to encrypt and upload many TBs worth of information to a cloud service?
I am wondering if anyone here had any suggestions about way to upload an entire external hard drive to a cloud service. I currently have an external hard drive with 4 TB's that I would like to upload ...
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Can I set up an auto backup function from one external hard drive to another?
My external hard drive is partitioned with half as the location for my Mac Timemachine backups, and half as additional storage - mainly for large files that I don't have space for on my Mac (videos, ...
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How to make sure old backup files aren't corrupt?
I store a lot of data on hdds that I rarely use unless required (once or twice a year)
Is it possible to make sure the existent files are working correctly and not corrupted without testing them one ...
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How to backup one external drive to another, using a Windows PC with limited permissions?
I have an external drive most of my work is on, and I use it at a work PC running Windows 7 Enterprise with limited permissions (small research team in a big organization).
I want to make sure that ...
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Can the transfer of numerous small files damage an external hdd?
my (rather new) external HDD (Seagate Expansion Portable) is slowly dying. It was used for backups of simulation results, that were written in thousands of small text files. Filesize was between 40kB ...
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Do I really have to mount the external usb hdd on an SMB share to recover my Windows 10 system image?
I did a system image backup of my Windows 10 machine using a combination of wbadmin and Bareos.
I wanted test restoring it, so I restored the wbadmin image files from the BareOS server to an ...
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How can I recover data from my external hard disk after formatting using the Media Creation Tool? [duplicate]
I had a lot of important data in WDmypassport external HD but I made this HD bootable (using media creation tool) without knowing that it can wipe off my data backup. I am new to this and I admit this ...
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WD MyCloud scheduled backup of selected folders only - is it possible?
Is it possible to set up WD MyCloud in such way, that some selected folders (and not all of them) are automatically backed up to connected external USB drive?
I'd like to keep my photos on it and I ...
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Direct Clone or Disk Image using Carbon Copy Cloner?
Previously was using Carbon Copy Cloner to back up to disk images on an external USB HDD, and thought that disk images were the only way.
Having set up CCC again to clone onto a new external HDD ...
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Weird permissions issue with WD MyBook?
I run Win 7 Pro 64 bit on desktop. I have several external drives, which I use for data backups and Acronis system image backups.
One of these drives is a WD MyBook (3 TB). Recently I ran the backup ...
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Create a DMG from my external hard drive for backup purpose
I would like to know how it is possible to create a DMG image from my external hard drive to copy it to another hard drive as a double backup. I was having a look around but didn't really came to the ...
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Windows Backup doesn't show Hard Drive
I am trying to get the Windows Backup working because the program that was delivered together with my Seagate Backup Drive is really stupid. I want to make incremental backups every hour. Something ...
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Cloning a HD vs. Copying Files - Which is faster?
Which is faster if I wanted to copy all files on a 6 TB hard drive to an 8 TB external hard drive? Cloning the 6 TB hard drive with Macrium Reflect or copying all files with UltraCopier? I noticed ...
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External HDD formatted to ZFS, another external HDD as (offline) backup. How do I protect my data against silent corruption?
I am an amateur photographer using a base model MacBook Air (128 GB SSD) with a macOS/Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot. Because the SSD is too small to store my photo library on, I used to store it on a 500 GB ...
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How to force rsync to stop if destination disk is full?
I am using rsync (version 3.1.0 on a centos) to do some backup task. I develop a software that monitor my rsync processes to fit the backup configuration to my buisness logic.
My software launch some ...
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External drive throwing ATA errors. What's the issue?
I have an SSD in my system and an external hard drive (attached via eSATA) as a backup medium. I use "rsync" to synchronize the internal drive to the external drive. My backup drive was once a Seagate ...
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How can I compare lists of files for manual incremental backup purposes?
I have backups of my hard drives in a physically different location. Periodically I will bring my hard drives to this location to update the backups. I do this because the data on my drives is ...
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How to harden external hard disk against ransomware
With the basic consumer backup setup that uses a permanently connected external hard drive to store the backup, with simple backup software or a robocopy script, what can be done to protect the disk ...
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Can I access command prompt through an installation disk without a C drive?
My C drive can't load into Windows 7 anymore. Any option I choose, advanced, normal, repair, it just says that it's loading windows files and then a black screen. I've read that this is the hard drive ...
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Backing up win 7 files to unrecognized external hd
I have an win7 laptop that I'd like to backup. I have an old wd 500 gb external usb hdd. I tried to use the win7 backup program (typing 'backup' at cmd line), but the edd is not recognized for backup ...
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Volume label on 2TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard drive does not appear in Windows Explorer (but is visible in Disk Management)
I've been experiencing some weird things with my Seagate drives. I think this happened when I tried to "vaccinate" the drives with Panda Free Anti-Virus. My WD 2TB and my internal hard drives worked ...
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two external hard drives simultaniously
I have two external western digital usb3 hard drives connected simultaniously to my windows 7 system. I can use them just normally in windows explorer and all is fine.
However I want to use one of ...
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Backup external harddrive online
My neighbor was asking me for help with her backups. After a few back and forths, this is what I know.
She doesn't have a home computer.
She does have a laptop from her
school (she's a teacher)
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External HDD inaccessible after formatting ext4+LUKS
In an attempt to establish a backup of my Arch Linux installation, I reformatted my My Passport Ultra 1 TB Drive. It was previously used on Windows, so I think the file system was NTFS (although I'm ...
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Windows Backup got interrupted, how can I find and delete the backup files created during the interrupted session?
I tried to create a backup on my external hard drive, but unfortunately that got interrupted. Before I ran the backup program, the external hard drive had 860 GB free. Now, it says it has 660 GB free. ...
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How can I perform a complete backup on Windows 7 without using the optical drive?
I have dell Inspiron N5050 laptop with the optical drive not being detected in My computer and also doesn't open on clicking the button to open.So the optical drive not opening and not being detected ...
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Internal hard drive connected by usb no longer displays in Disk Management. How to get the drive to show without deleting it's data?
I bought this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RORMF6
3TB internal hard drive to back-up data across multiple computers. When I connected the sata cable to USB, the hard-drive did not ...
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How to recover files on dead WD 1TB External Hard Drive? [closed]
I accept defeat. This piece of crap is dead. Is there anyway to recover the files on it? Stupid me for never backing up on cloud, DVD's, etc.
Please I need those files. :(
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Fastest way to duplicate encrypted hard drives?
I used hard drive duplicator to do the sector-by-sector duplication of hard drives. I think it took about 5 hours.
Pros:
easy
unattended, computer-free operation
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hard drive size restriction ...
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Rsync-like automatic delta backup of a removable hard drive on windows
Well a lot of questions have been asked on the SE network about using rsync on Windows. But nothing seems to really do the trick so I'd like to expose the specific mechanism I need to setup.
Lets say ...
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3 external HDDs not recognized by 2 different computers?
Not sure how to approach this problem.
We have 3 external HDDs: 2TB Fantom, 2TB and 4TB G-Drives. Manual backups, no automated/software. We each use 1 and use the 4TB for a duplicate backup of both ...
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HDD maintanance. minimal power on of external hard drive (for backup) [duplicate]
I want to use a external hard drive (not ssd) for backup. however I have heard that because of the mechanical nature of a HDD, it needs to be powered on and spin regularly to maximize its lifespan.
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Uploading large folders to Dropbox from external hard drive
I've got a puzzling dilemma that I've been trying to solve for weeks. I want to backup about 500 GBs from an external hard drive to my Dropbox Pro account.
My computer's hard drive is nowhere near ...
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Does External Backup Hardisk is usually slow? [closed]
I have purchased a new Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB 2.5" USB 3.0. I have notice that it copy files with a very low rate. I did some test using crystaldiskmark as follow.
as you can see it write in a very ...
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Running programs from external hard drive
I have a three year old Samsung laptop that has “Instant On” feature. It was terrifically fast when new but now its as just as slow as my old desktop. I’d like to reformat my computer so that I could ...
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How to create password for WD MyPassport if drive doesn't show up in WD Smartware Settings tab?
Is it possible to set a password for Western Digital Smartware backups on a WD My Passport Ultra once the backup function has already been used? When I go to the Settings tab, it only shows my ...
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How do I set up a WD MyBook 1TB disk as a USB drive on Debian Linux "Lenny"?
I have a WD MyBook 1TB drive that I would like to use for full cron backups (TAR?) on a Debian Linux ("Lenny") server. Is this possible? I don't care about losing the MyBook software if a reformat ...
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Time Machine does not backup all content?
I had to move from a Macbook Pro to a Macbook Air, and so I backed up my Pro using time machine onto an external hard drive. The backup ran smoothly and no errors were displayed. When I went to see ...
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Making backups of 10 hard drives. Should I just make disk images?
I am going to be making backups of about 10 hard drives, around 4 TB of data. I will be using a USB to SATA adapter and then be transferring the data to a 4tb external USB drive. I will most likely be ...
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Move folders from various locations to a specific folder -- Win. 8
I just purchased an external hard drive and was thinking about moving my movie backups over to it. The problem with this is that I didn't really take the time to organize my movie backups to begin ...
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Which external drive is better for server data backup? [closed]
I need to backup my server from data center having around 700GB of data.
Which external drive shall I use (it will be directly connected to the server) for backup?
How long it will take to copy data ...
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Combining two disjoint ddrescue backup images
I have a 3 TB drive which recently started to malfunction. I was using the ddrescue utility on Debian to read data off the disk to a different external hard drive. However, after 2 TB of data had been ...
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Mirror / backup laptop btrfs drive to sometimes connected external USB disk
I have a laptop with an internal drive using Btrfs. There are several subvolumes and snapshots on here. I want a copy of this drive to be made periodically to an external USB disk of approximately the ...
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