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Why do you need to restore them directly? Restore the ones you need directly and let the other restore in the background.
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06-29-2013, 02:53 PM | #497 | |
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Now, I just connect my external hard drive to my computer, run an rsync-script in Cygwin, and my backup will be updated. Once every two weeks or so, I update the drive, take it to my mom's house, and take back the drive that is there, and then update that. I'm never more than a few minutes (or in the worst case, hours) away from making or restoring a fully working backup. |
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And you can actually send them a disk for the initial backup. |
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06-29-2013, 04:36 PM | #499 | |
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I remember reading about a guy whose job it was to make tape backups once a week and then place them in a fireproof box. He did his job dutifully for a few months, but when a drive crashed they found out that none of the tapes had anything on them. To solve the mystery, the boss had the guy go through his backup routine to see if he was doing it wrong, but it all looked fine. When they were done, the guy figured he'd have his usual post-backup cup of tea, so he filled the electric kettle with water, plugged it into the wall socket and placed it on the nearest flat surface, the top of the fireproof box. The boss then saw that the AC coil in the kettle was bulk erasing all the tapes underneath.
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06-29-2013, 05:59 PM | #501 | |
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The update at my mom's house can be two weeks behind, in the very worst case, but if I really *NEED* that disc, then my house has burned down or exploded. The only things that regularly change on a daily basis are tags in e-books, FLAC/MP3 files, savegames, and so on. I can lose some stuff if need be. *I KNEW* I should have explained that. Now you know why people often ask me why my posts are so long-winded and "over-explanatory". I must plug each and every possible way to interpret something the wrong way or stop people from jumping to conclusions, because if they *can*, then they *will*. I hate that. Last edited by Katsunami; 06-29-2013 at 06:01 PM. |
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The CrashPlan UI allows you to selectively browse and download single files whenever you want, so you don't have to restore an entire backup set just to get the stuff you really need to access right now. So you'd immediate restore the computer/urgent data backup set, selectively grab the media you want access to right away, then start the slow process of restoring everything else. It may actually be quicker to restore than the backup, as it isn't doing the intensive block duplicate checking that occurs when uploading. I've done test restores just to prove everything works, but haven't done a performance test. |
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Apart from the fact that there are poems describing and/or relating to facts (e. g. the poet being left or rejected by the addressee of the poem) I have read two (not antic but contemporary ; AFAIR from 1980ies) adjudications written in rhyming verses. One of them was about a case where a payment reminder was ignored in the sense of not being percieved seriously as a writ, because - you might already guess - it was written in rhyming verses too. |
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07-03-2013, 07:52 PM | #507 | |
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though poetry isn't about metric and rhymes when I said poetry being from "the gut", I meant only the (largest) subgenre of lyrical poetry hey, finally some nice discussion here about poetry. better than more lame series |
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07-03-2013, 08:04 PM | #508 | |
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poetry isn't about verse, thought it can use it, as well as metric, rhymes etc yes, most classic epic poetry is really prose in verse and conversely your examples are not poetry, they are textbooks in verse poetry is not easy to define, but it certainly has to do with language, form and semantics. I like to define it as sculpting with words. the end sculpture may even be completely abstract, with not a hint of fiction or narrative at all, even though completely made out of words... |
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On the plus side, we have reviewers that help readers discover authors who didn't fit in the big 6's blockbuster mold, while weeding out material that was never meant to be made public. With ebooks, you can also check out the first chapter to see for yourself if the author's style jibes with you. There was a lot of bitterness and fear in Franklin's words. And righteously so. Noone will deny the slew of bad self-published books doesn't offer anything but noone buys them, so that's no more than background noise. On the other hand, we now have our first success stories of S-Ped authors who sold over 100K copies. We're still in a transitional stage at the moment as they've just made it and their names wouldn't ring a bell to many of us. As years go by, they will keep on building their fan bases, and eventually attract attention in mainstream media. It's this day that traditional publishers dead like hell. As for these authors' contributions,... some of them will likely read very much like traditionally published writers relying a solid mastery of their craft to tell compelling stories. But there will also be others, maybe the new Celine, Joseph Heller or Bukowski, who would be discarded as too controversial or much of a financial risk by the Big 6. It's giving me hope for mankind's future in an era when so many people get "offended" by someone just opening their mouth. |
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