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How to Programmatically Eject a Drive for Immutable Backups with Physical Connection?
We are looking for a practical and cost-effective way to enhance the security of our backups. Our initial idea was to go for immutable backups but unfortunately, due to cost constraints, we are ...
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Using rsync to merge two source directories
I have my photos on an external disk, which I back up to my server by manually running a script that uses rsync. This script ensures that my external disk and my backup are in sync, which means ...
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How can I prevent Backblaze from frequently (every few days) reuploading my entire external hard drives?
It seems that Backblaze is frequently (every few days) reuploading my entire external hard drives. Backblaze already has the files on its server, so it's only scanning my entire external hard drives, ...
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Is it possible to make a RAID of multiple WD elements external drives
I have about 10 2tb WD Elements 2.5 WD green external hard drives (WD20NMVW). I want to know if I could make something useful out of them.
The best would be to be able to use them for a data archive ...
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Backup iCloud files to an external hard drive?
What are my options for backing up every file on my iCloud to an (exFAT) external hard disk?
Right now I have more files on iCloud than space on my Mac internal hard drive.
Copying folders from the ...
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How should I interpret this "Bad disk" report by CrystalDiskInfo?
Today, I have gone through the process of individually plugging in all my ten current backup disks and checked them with CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.8 x64 in order to determine whether I dare to keep using ...
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I am unable to copy/paste lots of files from a NTFS 4TB external drive, to a SSD 16TB USB stick to back up the 4TB drive. Always fails except for?
I have a WD 4TB external USB storage dive, that I want to copy everything on it to a newly purchased 16TB USB SSD stick drive.
I started to copy/paste all of the data (about 860GB) which took quite a ...
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Backing up from Dropbox (online) straight to external drive
I have all my work saved on my Dropbox account, and generally only have around 20% of that stored locally at any one time.
I'd like to buy a large external drive and back everything up onto that for ...
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Questions about external SSD software RAID?
I currently have two 2.5" 4TB SSDs. My plan is to get an external Thunderbolt enclosure with a minimum of 4 bays and no hardware RAID (e.g. OWC Thunderbay Mini), and buy two more 4TB SSDs to make ...
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Dropbox writing to external drive very slowly
I have an external HDD which I wanted to utilize as Dropbox backup. It's connected to a secondary idle PC via USB. I've installed Dropbox and set its location at the external drive hoping it would ...
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Is it bad keeping an external hard drive on my desk – given vibrations from typing on keyboard?
I keep an external hard disk on my desk, which is usually turned off, but I will plug it in occasionally to do backups of my computer.
A friend told me that it's a bad idea to be typing on the ...
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Backing up System Image of Primary Drive to External HDD and Files on Secondary Hard Drive to Same External HDD?
I have a weird use case:
I have two drives in my PC: C drive (1TB nvme ssd) and D drive (different 1 TB nvme ssd).
C drive has windows, d drive has personal files.
I want to create a complete image of ...
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backup then restore when drive sizes differ
I would like to backup a Windows 10 machine ( 256gb internal drive ) onto an external SSD drive ( 1 tb ) ... however to do this backup if I boot up using a Ubuntu LiveUSB memory stick then issue the ...
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Hard Drive space used but files are in found.000 and cannot be accessed
I had used Virtualbox for a virtual machine which had froze for a long period of time and would not close by shutting it down normally. I closed it by clicking the cross and restarted my machine. I ...
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Why isn't my External Hard Drive getting backed up by Backblaze?
My External Hard Drive (8 TB Seagate External Hard Drive mounted as disk letter F) isn't backed up. by Backblaze? See demo below. Why isn't it getting backed up?
I read https://help.backblaze.com/hc/...
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