Subj : Re: ArakNet
To   : cr1mson
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 13:22:11

  Re: Re: ArakNet
  By: cr1mson to Nightfox on Tue Nov 11 2025 01:21 am

 Ni>> You should always make backups of your stuff in case anything like that
 Ni>> happens.

 cr> As easy as that's said, it's commonly overmissed as time varies for each
 cr> backup.  I'm not aware if he had any current backups of the work he put in
 cr> it.  With a hardware failure, he would have had to put it on another drive
 cr> or even external drive if that.

It sucks to lose work though, so making backups is part of the process.

 cr> For me, with very low bandwidth, it takes many hours to get one backup
 cr> done and would require the board to be down during that time so I wouldn't
 cr> miss any incoming packets of sorts.

I may be old-fashioned, but I copy my BBS backups to a USB flash drive; my internet bandwith doesn't really matter..  It doesn't take very long - My BBS is down for only a few minutes while it's archived, then I copy the archive to my USB drive.  I don't really feel like there's a need to pay for cloud storage and use the bandwidth it takes to back up my BBS that way.

Nightfox
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