tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17681521.post115932067859018782..comments2023-11-30T10:11:42.899+01:00Comments on Eclipse and Java Blog by Michael Scharf: When a system becomes corrupt....Michael Scharfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708708879318235495noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17681521.post-44710944535551933582014-07-27T06:51:35.173+02:002014-07-27T06:51:35.173+02:00Robert currently is vacationing throughout Southea...Robert currently is vacationing throughout Southeast Parts of asia inside Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, as well as Cambodia. It had been on the new kayak adventure inside Laos in which the mobile computer had been dunked to the <a href="mordo-crosswords-solution.blogspot.com/2014/07/backup-for-michael-once.html" rel="nofollow">Backup for Michael, once</a> Mekong Pond by mistake. With no back up, all of Mike's records might have already been shed. Because of on the net back up, nonetheless, all of the records have been simply retrieved <a href="mordo-crosswords-solution.blogspot.com/2014/07/backup-for-michael-once.html" rel="nofollow">[read more]</a><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08109867068757402125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17681521.post-1160827008131340272006-10-14T13:56:00.000+02:002006-10-14T13:56:00.000+02:00backupbackupAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17681521.post-1159464794671771762006-09-28T19:33:00.000+02:002006-09-28T19:33:00.000+02:00Ali,I totally agree that the you have to customize...Ali,<BR/><BR/>I totally agree that the you have to customize your backup!<BR/><BR/>MichaelMichael Scharfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708708879318235495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17681521.post-1159459850425133072006-09-28T18:10:00.000+02:002006-09-28T18:10:00.000+02:00Hi Michael,Ah.. I realized after posting the comme...Hi Michael,<BR/>Ah.. I realized after posting the comment that it somehow sounds as if I am saying you didn't know what you were doing. I apologize for that. As a matter of fact my argument was that the out-of-the-box backup utilities are not as reliable as one would like to.<BR/>And there is no question about taking regular backup of the data. It is only the OS backup or environment backup which I was talking about.<BR/> <BR/>thanks<BR/>AliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17681521.post-1159400350087124062006-09-28T01:39:00.000+02:002006-09-28T01:39:00.000+02:00Thank you Ali for the long reply.Interestingly I b...Thank you Ali for the long reply.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly I bought the backup program myself (the "institution" is not insisting on the backup).<BR/><BR/>I work from my home office, and I started doing backups after one disk of one of my computer crashed. It crashed just after I finished my tax declaration. I lost the data :-(. I try to imagine if my crashed disk would have been my main disk without backup...<BR/><BR/>I know exactly what I backup, why I backup weekly the entire system and daily the interesting data. It saved me several times...<BR/><BR/>Even in this case, after playing back different versions of backup, I finally restored the corrupt system and the ntuser.dat from a previous backup.<BR/><BR/>Without my backup strategy I would have been lost...<BR/><BR/>MichaelMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18403619651699327804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17681521.post-1159362293871590002006-09-27T15:04:00.000+02:002006-09-27T15:04:00.000+02:00Hi Michael,It is an interesting read. However I wo...Hi Michael,<BR/>It is an interesting read. However I would disagree with your final conclusion about taking regular backups and backing up the corrupt system as well. I hear so many times so many people and even organizations insisting on making regular backups. In most of the companies like when I used work in the bank there were whole lot of backup policies etc.etc.<BR/>So does backup helps everytime you need it? In many cases answer is NO. I went through the same ordeal with a real enterprise system when I lost the whole Oracle database and found that the last backup was corrupt. And good backups were not available. Only to find out later what I should have backed up and how should I restore. You went through taking so many backups , trying to restor so many of them and in the end finding no clue why your backups are not properly restored. <BR/>So am I saying that taking backup is unnecessary? NO backup is a good thing in any case. But the most important thing is what backup one should take. In my opinion of all those backup utilities or whatever provided by big companies and operating systems, Only good backup is the one that you understand what is being backed up and how it will be restored. After struggling whole day you found that the missing file is ntuser.dat and the relevant registries etc. etc. same with eclipse. That is where the point lies. I usually prefer only taking backup of my data (only data). And for any environment restore I usually prefer to find a way how to recreate my whole environment in case it is lost. On Mac OS it is pretty easy to have a script to restore your whole profile if needed.<BR/>So my conclusion is take a backup only if you know what you are backing up.<BR/>Thanks<BR/>AliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com