Suggestions for backup procedures?

[Blue Mountain]

I also keep my .exe files there for my personal apps.

Does that include all their dependencies such as DLL files, ini files, and registry entries? If not, keeping only the .exe is akin to having a car up on blocks without also having the tires and battery in a safe place.

 

[AmyStrange]

Does that include all their dependencies such as DLL files, ini files, and registry entries? If not, keeping only the .exe is akin to having a car up on blocks without also having the tires and battery in a safe place.

From what I understand, when double clicking on my .exe (install) files (for apps like Calibre, Filezilla, Kindle Create etc.), and it's executed, all of the DLL files (and all the other ones associated with it) are recreated again.

When I had to buy another computer (because my original one died), It worked fine for me anyway.

Of course, you have to redo all the settings and preferences again.

 

[AmyStrange]

Does that include all their dependencies such as DLL files, ini files, and registry entries? If not, keeping only the .exe is akin to having a car up on blocks without also having the tires and battery in a safe place.

I'm glad you brought that up, because the .exe files I'm talking about are the ones you download to install a program (app).

Thank you.

 

[alfaniner]

Really dug into Robocopy (I was a support analyst, after all), and after a lot of false starts I think I got what I want. A huge copy is going now. We'll see...!

 

[alfaniner]

That suggests you're copying from an NTFS drive to a FAT one.

Destination formatted as NTFS.

 

[catsmate]

Destination formatted as NTFS.

Oh well....

 

[alfaniner]

I tried starting robocopy with doing just one very large folder that has a lot of subfolders. It chugged along fine for a long time, but when I came back and checked later I had a black screen again, along with the not-helpful message "Your computer experienced a problem and had to shut down". Yeah, thanks -- what caused the ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ problem?
I ran chkdsk on both the source and destination drive -- no issues. I am now working on making a robocopy .bat file to do the folders individually. With all the time I've put into it already, it would have been faster to drag and drop them. But I am a coder, and determined to automate the process so I don't have to do it the long way next time. I'm actually pretty close and will document the solution when I have it.

 

[Wudang]

Have you checked EventViewer to see if you can see what caused the shut down? I know, needle meet haystacks.

 

[alfaniner]

Have you checked EventViewer to see if you can see what caused the shut down? I know, needle meet haystacks.

I got into that a long time ago so I know how to access it. I'll check it out if it happens again.

 

[alfaniner]

Grrr, to get away from this problem for a while I decided to work on a new 3D print design. Started the print up and came back later to find "Print aborted with unknown error." ◊◊◊◊ me. (No, it's not a network thing.)

 

[theprestige]

I'm dubious of the proposition that consumer hardware is up to the task of transferring terabytes of data without babysitting.

 

[Blue Mountain]

Those "unknown error" messages are crap, too. At the very least the software can report any hardware errors the printer gave and show a stack trace that could be submitted for analysis. Submitted to who, I can't say.

 

[alfaniner]

In addition, trying to post that info on this Forum this afternoon, I got "database error" (as I'm sure many others did). NOTHING is working for me today.

 

[novaphile]

In addition, trying to post that info on this Forum this afternoon, I got "database error" (as I'm sure many others did). NOTHING is working for me today.

Yep, seen a few of those today.

Such is life.

 

[rjh01]

In addition, trying to post that info on this Forum this afternoon, I got "database error" (as I'm sure many others did). NOTHING is working for me today.

Now we know who is to blame for all the problems this forum has.