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There are two types of computer failures. Mirror and copy and paste or drag like I do. I might be wrong about all of this? There are two types of backups. Try dragging 500GB of files, folders, and who knows what? From one hard drive to another and you will see why a back up program is the way to do this. I back up every thing in my computer so I don't forget anything. You all better stock up on caned food and bullets. If my predictions come true? The internet will shut down. If there is nothing private on the word document? Upload the file to this forum and you will best bunch of computer experts on this planet poking at it.īigMoose's house is at the bottom of this image. If there is nothing private on the word document? Upload the file to this forum and you will have the best bunch of computer experts on this planet poking at it.ĭo you have any Ubuntu Linux friends? Try opening opening file on their computers. rtfĭo you have any Ubuntu Linux friends? Try opening opening file on their computers. I would start by downloading Libreoffice and try opening with that. Looks like the Open Office people went over to Some company bought it with the intention of making money. Looks like something happened to similar to what happened to this forum. These programs were made by volunteers all over the world. more?Īre you using Windows? Try opening with a different word program. Put one in a place away from my house in case the house burns or disappears.įor the corrupted word file, try changing the filename extension. Having a safety beyond that is a lifesaver. I have found that when things 'tar ball up' I will typically blow one backup trying to figure out what went wrong. Anything I can do on the desktop, I can do on the laptop.

My IP file structures on the desktop, laptop, NAS and Corporate Cloud are identical.

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If I do anything meaningful on the laptop, I update the NAS image before shutting down for the night. NAS automatically updates corporate offsite Cloud Storage overnight. At the end of the day desktop updates NAS. Local NAS (Synology Network Attached Storage) is on a UPS. 3 total copies with one physically offsite and updated daily.ĭesktop is on a UPS. Even the corporate gurus couldn't recover the hard drive.īackups.

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I thought I would share my method, as my income is from IP (Intellectual Property.) I got into this mode after I was the 'lucky' guy that had his desktop PC in the act of writing to the disk when the utility guys cut the main underground power line with a backhoe. This is probably more complex than most people would want you have to decide how important your data is to you, look at the cost of a backup system, and decide accordingly, bearing in mind that a computer costs maybe £100 and a large hard drive about £50. Why this revolving three-computer system?īecause if a file is accidentally deleted or get corrupted and I don't find out about it for several days, I still have a clean copy I can go back to. That's so I can just switch to using that within minutes of a hardware failure.Įach day, it's also mirrored onto a backup computer, on the 1st to the 10th of the month, that computer is called 'back1'. Here's what I do.Įach day, that's mirrored onto a similar computer. How complex it needs to be, depends on how important the data is.

And the backup should be automated, or you'll forget to do it.

Microsoft word document corrupted recovery