Backup help

Roger Oliver roger at olivermx.net
Fri Sep 15 21:45:46 EDT 2017


Thanks. I'll try that. Everything worked as advertised on a simple USB
drive so it may be a Windows issue or power on the old Windows 7 machine.

On Sep 15, 2017 7:29 PM, "Art" <pinaart at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus
> formatted to NTFS with a GPT (to handle drives larger than 2TB).
>
> Since you said you could see the files from the first machine, the data
> was likely there. If you cannot see any files on the same drive from the
> second machine, I'd get another Windows 10 machine to see if it can read
> any files on the same drive. If not,the "WinDrive" is suspect.
>
> BTW, I also have a 2TB drive powered by the USB port - that device
> occasionally fails if the host cannot  power the drive, i.e., the port
> can't handle the 500 mA peak demand from the drive, so it disconnects and
> the data corrupts. It's a nuisance, but it works most of the time. I
> generate checksums for my critical files so I can just destroy corrupt
> files and get another copy (I keep three copies of all my critical stuff).
>
> - Art
>
> On Friday, September 15, 2017, 7:21:13 PM EDT, Roger Oliver <
> roger at olivermx.net> wrote:
>
>
> Windows 7 and 10. Mostly interested in a backup copy off the main computer
> in case it crashes. Mine did, the Windows 10 machine. All my GC data was
> restored from the Carbonite backup. Grateful it worked. The 7 machine is at
> the school dedicated to accounting. I think there is something wrong with
> the WinDrive external hard drive. Thanks!
>
> On Sep 15, 2017 6:08 PM, "Art" <pinaart at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> What are the OSes on the source and target computers?
> What is the external hard disk filesystem and how do you know it's
> compatible with both computers?
>
> I assume you are able to run GC on both computers, hence the point of
> copying the db to the second one. E.g., I routinely archive my db from my
> Ubuntu 17.04 machine to a 5TB USB drive so I can restore it to my Windows
> 10 laptop when I'm on the road and vice versa to sync my backup repository.
>
> - Art
>
> On Friday, September 15, 2017, 6:13:36 PM EDT, Roger Oliver <
> roger at olivermx.net> wrote:
>
>
> I can't seem to get the GnuCash files to back up to an external hard disk.
> The files show that they are there but when I try to find them on another
> computer to have a copy off site, the files are not there. What am I doing
> wrong? Thanks, Roger Oliver
>
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