Recent content by DuncanF

I've decided to buy myself a late Christmas present by way of an external flash for my X100. I have a Fuji EF-X20 which is beautifully made and very intuitive, but is increasingly annoying due to its lack of bounce and swivel. So that will be sold. I want a compact unit with TTL capabilities so...

I think that sounds like a solid approach. The originals on your laptop, regular syncing to the IcyDock, and less frequent snapshots to a USB disk to take to your sister. If your laptop HDD dies you have a near line copy on the IcyDock; should the worst happen you have an offline copy with your...

I use Crashplan. There is a good review of the main cloud backup players here.

God no! I do these things 'cos it's my business (IT) so I'm familiar and comfortable with all aspects. I detailed what I do not to say that it's best approach for you/anyone, but to suggest elements you may want to cherry pick. Your proposed hardware will do just fine for a second copy. But how...

Just to add a quick note on tools: I use Acronis True Image 2014 to make the hardware (laptop/PC) image backups I use ViceVersa Pro/VV Engine to make copies of the NAS to the second line USB storage I use Crashplan to sync the NAS to the cloud I use SkyDrive to sync a subset of NAS data to the...

It's a start. But remember RAID is not backup. What the IcyDock/Toshiba hardware will give you is a place to store your backups which itself has an element of redundancy (RAID 1) should one of the drives fail. You will still need to implement some form of regime to make regular, automated copies...

Not really. As for your Q above, I think Crashplan will want to see the files/disk permanently attached. If you take the drive off the machine on which Crashplan is running it will probably think they have been removed and may delete them from the could, depending on the "keep" settings you...

Hi Wooster, I run a NAS on an HP Microserver with RAID'd discs for the data. This is my F: drive. A subset of the F: drive folders are synced to Crashplan. So F: > CrashPlan A subset of the Crashplan folders is also synced to SkyDrive. So F: > Crashplan > SkyDrive My external HDD is a local...

No harm at all leaving your PC on for the duration. I'm with CrashPlan too. My initial 1TB upload took three weeks, but I have fibre. In terms of "unlimited" or "capped" plans, this is from the POV of downloads, not uploads. However it's worth a call to your ISP to confirm. Mine (Zen...

I tried a pattern battery part from eBay for my Thinkpad a few years ago. Much cheaper but its fit was not spot on and it moved about when installed. The Lenovo replacement battery OTOH fitted like a glove but cost a fortune. So I guess you pays your money etc ...

Have a look at Crashplan too.

So apart from backups what do you do with this VM you rent? The prices start to steepen once you need more than 250GB storage. It would cost me $50/month. I can't help but think you're paying for unnecessary CPU/RAM when what you really need is pure cloudy storage.

Just picked up a price dropped Surface RT. Nice bit of kit and the W8 interface makes lots of sense in touch mode. And using Remote Desktop I can get to my home PC for grunty tasks/things that RT cannot do. Although as a modest app consumer, I've not found many of those tbh. Add to that...

This! The Windows 8 interface summarized in one sentence. I struggle to understand why people struggle to understand this!

Crashplan for me, amongst the various other backups/copies etc. I have. I punted just over 1TB to them. I should have gone for the "send them a disc" option for the initial load, but it was amusing to watch my broadband flat out for the four weeks the initial upload took! A subset of that data...