And now for something completely different...

[Gerold Krommer]

Hi Tim,

I remember a post about storing H&M files on cloud drives and your strong recommendation not to do it. Instead you recommended a software that would constantly replicate files to a separate destination and with which you had good experience.

For m life I cannot find that post (and the forced intervals between searches do not help). Can you post the name of the software again please?

And now for something completely different: I wonder how many people in this forum are that old to recognize where the title is quoted from

Thanks,

/Gerold

[Horst_Reichert_PN]

I think this forum is about parrots and silly walking ministers

[Tim Green]

Hi Gerold,

The advice against cloud storage has to do with managed cloud folders like DropBox, OneDrive and Google Drive. They have rather primitive management of multiple access and don't provide any information to Help+Manual about multiple users accessing them at the same time. The result is that you end up with multiple "conflicted copies" of the same files, with different editing status in each copy. It's then impossible to put together a version that really reflects the current status you wanted to get. In addition to this, in some circumstances you can also overwrite each other's work completely. OneDrive is particularly bad for that.

The software I recommend for automatic backups is calld AJC Active Backup, by a Help+Manual user called Andrew Cutforth:

https://www.ajcsoft.com/active-backup.htm

It's a brilliant, inexpensive tool that just sits in the background and makes ongoing backups of all the changes in the folders and file types you tell it to monitor. The backup increments only save the differences and are compressed, so they are very compact. I just have them go to my Synology NAS (also highly recommended). I can also only say good things about Andrew's AJC Sync program, which you can use to keep folders in sync with support for a huge range of different destination types. I use it for keeping backups of important stuff on Amazon AWS.

[Gerold Krommer]

Thanks Tim, I will buy it for sure.

>I think this forum is about parrots and silly walking ministers

100% correct

[Simon_Dismore]

And now for something completely different: I wonder how many people in this forum are that old to recognize where the title is quoted from
/Gerold

I'm not old enough to confirm this but I think that reference goes back to At Last the 1948 Show (1967) and was one of the ideas carried forward into Monty Python two years later. Source: BFI announces discovery of two episodes of pre-Python classic British TV series.

Still, beautiful plumage.

[Tim Green]

I'm also pretty sure that Spike Milligan used the phrase at least once on The Goon Show on the radio (and that really dates me...)