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the best idea is to plan your recovery, not your backup.
I generally concentrate on user data/files/settings (user/system AppData...)
if there's databases do those in an unloaded/export format (likewise a registry backup/export file rather than the registry itself.)
It's much easier to restore on an apps own import/restore function rather then just dumping the files back (and hoping issues such as raw block allocation/contiguity is not an issue)
OK, an image can overcome many of the issues but
1. if it's the hardware that died image restore likely fails (windows for sure), and extracting from raw backed up registry / database next to impossible.
2. even on the same hardware a full sys rebuild - do you want all the same superfluous 'baggage,' back again, and perhaps also take the opportunity to upgrade apps (or o/s) during rebuild.
restores will always take far longer then expected, even more so if an image that had apps and/or settings 'tweaked' to make it work a certain way. I'd rather reinstall [fresh] apps, then restore (reload) data/files back rather than figure out the tricks employed to make it tick properly.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Good point,while I have your attention - is there an equivalent of this for Linux ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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for linux I got lazy and use FreeFileSync...
the setup I have is 2 internal SSD,
- the second started as a "dd" image of the first but since then I just use FFS to update it.
also 2 external USB SSD (rotating) that are again full images of the main drive
(usb 3.1 SSD is almost as fast as SATA so even after a heavy day backing up say 10-20GB of updated files (typically VM's) at the end of the day is finished before I can get a coffee
- and most daily backups are way less than that)
versioning?: what the source control doesn't version I do myself where it matters. (mostly it matters for source, so if already being done why do it.)
FFS is the lazy option (that I used initially when moving from winduds) and just kept using it.
there's built in commands that do exactly same thing:
notably rsync - it's command line but there are GUI interfaces for it too
the beauty of the simple mirror-backup option is:
1. I could remove ffs and using the built-in rsync it would still be smart enough to back up only changed files (sort of like in winduds say swapping xcopy for robocopy)
2. restoring is simple:
say something in my work folder "/home/share/dev/pplus" gets broken
it's backed up on "/shadow/home/share/dev/pplus" internally - always mounted,
and /media/bk/home/share/dev/pplus when either external drive is plugged in.
the beauty of linux (I actually did this for my backup machine) is any one of those backup or original images can be plugged straight into another machine (even if the hardware differs which it did), just switch it on and it boots ready to go - no downloading/installing different drivers, no drive letter changed crap, no licence or "welcome to xxx" first use popups... - even in the windows vm's contained in the image. (Another main reason you should always guest windows on linux hosts rather then visa-versa.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Not necessarily, certainly AOMEI can restore to a different disk without problems (I've even a restored bootable HDD image to a SSD and had no problems at all (all part of backup integrity testing).
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Let's hope their Pi won't be down 
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RickZeeland wrote: Let's hope their Pi won't be down
 Just what I was thinking!
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Depends on the weather - last time I heard there was a 40% chance of it being too inclement to launch.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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A huge step in the new space era!
I'm not sure how many it cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Apparently, the company I work for is in charge of rescuing the astronauts, should anything go wrong. 
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We had some pretty severe storms on Saturday, and lost power several times. One of those times was three consecutive power cycle events that had some detrimental effects on my Raspberry Pi3B+ DNS servers. One Pi died completely, and the other fried its thumb drive (it's somewhat curious that the pi that died was not the one that contained the corrupted thumb drive). I re-imaged the thumb drive and had a spare Pi, so recovery took a few hours (I took the opportunity to update the OS and PiHole software).
For the Pi that died, we interred it in a small crypt in the back yard, and had a small private remembrance ceremony in the house. There were tears.
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BTW, they were plugged into a UPS (which I also switched out for a spare one).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 26-May-20 7:39am.
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RIP
UPS's are your friends. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: RIP RPI
FTFY
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If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I have six UPS's. I had a spare one that I connected the pi's too so I could see if I could fix the one that was in use at the time.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Time for a Pi-lgrimage 
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Hi,
Most of the 18650 power banks allow you to charge/discharge at the same time. They go for around $10-20 and would have prevented this from happening. The 18650 batteries on the other hand... go for around $5 each for the good brands.
With no power my board would still be up for several days.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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They were on a UPS. You normally don't find out your UPS is dead until something like this happens. :/
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The eternal backup...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Hmmmm,
#realJSOP wrote: They were on a UPS. You normally don't find out your UPS is dead until something like this happens. :/
Interesting. I've never seen a UPS without a battery indicator. Most of my APC units have an audible alarm that you simply cannot ignore.
Your prepper skills seem to be devolving. You should go check the emergency food cache... I bet some of it is spoiled.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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A bad battery indicator wouldn't detect a failed surge suppression system; and I'm less than impressed with the ones in the APC towers I have. They may alert on a completely dead battery, but not one that's degraded to the point it can't keep your system running until it does a self-test and crashes it due to power loss.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well,
I don't know what model you are using but I paid $700 each for the ones here in my office and both of them perform a self-test periodically and do indeed test for surge suppression and wiring faults along with the battery load test. The alarms are *really* loud... it's the only negative thing I can say about them.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I'm using consumer grade UPS's ($180 1500 mva).
Everything I'd read says not to plug a power strip into a UPS (or is it plugging a UPS into a power strip?), but in this case, I think doing so might have at least saved the hardware.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But have you ever seen a ups in a room that's almost never used, like, when something bad happens and you have to go see wtf is going on?
Outa sight, outa mind...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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He danced danced for a team (8)
Anagram of he danced
Hendecad
hendecad - Wiktionary
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 26-May-20 8:35am.
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