Asus backup app - tests done - results

[Lea]

I have the same question about the 600 MB. anyone have an answer? And are we all talking about the same "app backup" ?

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[janner43]

Re: 600mb limit

Backup in more than one go
By type - games, apps,
Or... Alphabetically
Or any way you like really...

I do mine as
General
E-reading
Games

Just do more than one!

[guillebuscemi]

I have the same question about the 600 MB. anyone have an answer? And are we all talking about the same "app backup" ?

Yeah, I am talking about the same app. Looks like cool, but why taht limitation?

[Swipe]

Yeah, I am talking about the same app. Looks like cool, but why that limitation?

Probably a question to ask Asus. I don't think anyone else really knows.

[Bob_of_QF]

In some cases, I store image copies, and sometimes they are on either another hard disk or sometimes on a DVD that resides in my safety deposit box for offsite backup. Things like tax documents, photos, and other non-replacable things are good to have stored safely.

A note of warning: write-once DVD's and CD's are not permanent by any means. Back in the 90's, I used to sell a custom program (still DOS--nevermind that) on write-once CD's. After 5 or 7 years? Those CD's are no longer readable. By anyone--not even the original CD writer that created it.

As I understand it, the DVD uses essentially the same chemical formula (a phase-change dye that the laser "melts" to create 1's, and leaves alone to create 0's). Over long periods of time, these discs loose their integrity--even if carefully stored.

One thing is certain: future historians won't be digging up old CDR's or DVDR's to try to discover what we did with them...

... nowadays? I use hard drives and FLASH memory to keep important, long-term backups. Hard disks are cheap enough, and if stored inside a plastic, anti-static bag, with some desiccant? They ought to be good for decades. So long as there remains an electronic gizmo that can attach to them, that is.

Anyone know how to get an MFM hard drive working under Windoze 7? (just kidding...)

My point is this: keep re-checking old archival backups, and updating them to the latest and greatest media where possible. You never know when you'll need those.

Me? I fixed my former customer's dead CD-R disk by buying an el-cheapo USB thumb drive, and sending him a fresh copy on that. It was cheaper to do it that way, than trying to resurrect how I'd created the CD-R in the first place (of almost 20 years ago, now...) Yeah, I'm a pack-rat with old backups-- and I had all my old stuff on a spare hard disk. Which, even though it was a PATA disk, still worked.....

[Magissia]

Thanks for the report.

I'm using titanium backup here so i don't have thoses problems .

Regards