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That's what it took to get you going with backups?
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No, I do take images but they could be done more regularly.
I checked my spreadsheet detailing which drives get imaged and when they were last imaged.
My C drive was last imaged in November last year so I thought it would be a very good idea to create another image.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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November? 
I get annoyed at myself when the time I last did a backup gets counted in weeks.
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I know - my life in the past year has been kind of busy.
I store the vast majority of my data on a cloud server with the ability to restore at any point in time(dropbox and so far it's pretty cheap too).
So the only real issue is my OS disk being imaged - if something did happen it would be a case of restoring the image and Windows updates, so while November isn't great, it's not a huge problem for a personal non-production environment machine.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Ransomeware got into the place I work. The IT server group got called in and spent the night. In the morning, almost everything was restored from the backups.*
I was unaffected: I (and the other developers) have a box and were not in the forest when the fire broke out. I've had fear of attack since the 80's. For the hell of it, I keep my (home) NAS offline much of the time. Sounds crazy, but it's become storage central (do they call that a personal cloud these days). All goodies survived super storm Sandy on it's raid-1 drives, and I only lost the computers. Much easier to replace.
Except for the every-increasing cost of good aluminum foil, paranoia has its perks.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Quote: paranoia has its perks
As far as data and computer safety is concerned: Oh yes! Paranoia serves its purpose. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Backups are a definite must ... and certainly can help with ransomware. But they sure as elephant don't even come close to being a silver bullet.
So I might be tempted to say you get 2 sub-kinds of the first kind:
- Those who know that a good backup routine is only a brick in the wall.
- Those who think having an "awesome" backup routine is all they need.
Personally I start off by stating: I am the weak link. I need to make sure I don't do stupid things like clicking on just any old thing, or opening mails from doggy sources. Next I take the line that a backup is blind ... if you don't catch things like ransomware soon enough, your backup is simply duplicating the ransomware spreading it further. So do tests on your data before and after backups, i.e. what anti-viruses "should" be doing but rarely actually "do".
And finally understand that no lock is pick-proof, no medicine works for all illnesses - same way all firewalls / AVs / etc. are just attempts to keep bad things out. And fixes and patches are just there to try and remove those bad things once they HAVE TAKEN HOLD. At which time your latest backup is most probably also infected and would help very little when you try to restore it.
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Name the song:
public void Chorus()
{
Sugar you = new Sugar();
Body me = new Body();
if (you.Wants(me) && you.Thinks(me) == Impressions.Sexy)
{
you.Alert(me, Alerts.Know);
}
if (you.Needs(me))
{
you.Reach(out me, you.Touch(me));
((Honey)you).Tell(me, Alerts.So);
}
}
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sugar Sugar (The Archies)?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Gawd! I'd forgotten them completely!
Nope, not that.
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Spot on!
I'm very tempted to say "your turn next week!" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm very tempted to say "your turn next week!"
Alright, challenge accepted!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I'll look forward to it! 
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this.Want.Add ( you ) ;
this.Need.Add ( you ) ;
this.Love.Remove ( you ) ;
bool bad = ( this.Want.Count + this.Need.Count + this.Love.Count ) < 2 ;
if ( !bad )
{
you.Feeling.Remove ( Feeling.Sad ) ;
}
modified 9-Apr-16 19:37pm.
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A warmup (for me) for next Saturday
if (DateTime.Now.Hour <= 1 && Environment.Moon.IsVisible)
{
var highway = Map.Streets.First(n => n.Contains("Highway");
this.WalkTo(highway);
int miles = 0;
bool found = false;
while (!found)
{
this.Walk(highway.RelativeDirectionTo(this));
miles++;
found = this.FOV.Objects.Contains(this.Partner);
}
}
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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You are clearly much better at this than I am - I don't have a good clue at all!
Good one though, got me thinking...
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Knowing your smarts, chances are I just picked a not very well known song. Though, geographically you're at an advantage 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Correct!
I came to know it by Fairground Attraction's cover, which was in the UK charts in 1990 (which is why I told Griff he was at an advantage, geographically).
Fairground Attraction Live 13/15 Walking After Midnight - YouTube[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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static void Work(ActionTypeEnum action)
{
string target = "you";
if (action != ActionTypeEnum.GiveUp
&& action != ActionTypeEnum.LetDown
&& (action != ActionTypeEnum.RunAround || action != ActionTypeEnum.Dessert)
&& action != ActionTypeEnum.MakeCry
&& action != ActionTypeEnum.SayGoodbye
&& (action != ActionTypeEnum.TellLie && action != ActionTypeEnum.Hurt)
)
{
Process(target);
}
}
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You think you can rick roll me?
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: ActionTypeEnum.Dessert
Well, that certainly changes the meaning of the lyrics - Rick's never going to feed you pudding!
Pssst: I think you meant "desert".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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