@kdfrawg Hardly surprising, really; the quality of a great deal of articles suggests reporting from hearsay even for easily verifiable subjects…
// @streakmachine
@literary Between an automatic coffee maker and a large vessel + sieve, I'd take the latter. Makeshift French press, and you get to control the water temperature.
// @JeremyCherfas
@kdfrawg Precisely. And it's a Windows system. I haven't dealt with Windows since 2006. No rsync, no
dd@kdfrawg He trusted my uncle — who lives in Canada — to set up a backup solution, and never thought to verify it for himself. Blind trust. Said uncle documented nothing.
@kdfrawg I couldn’t get the backup drive to mount to verify anything. I’m assuming the worst at this point…
@matigo Happily, he can do the essential banking and all on his phone, which gives me until our Saturday dinner.
Doesn’t help just his iPad’s useless since his modem is on its last legs: it only works with direct Ethernet connection. Won’t cooperate with a router, wireless is borked.
@matigo Yes.
Now we have a few problems:
- Uncle helped him set up a 2TB backup solution, or so grandpa claims. But the 2TB in a dock won’t mount, and I can’t see any backup app. No documentation on the matter, even though said uncle lives in Vancouver…
- Grandpa has his accounting/tax info on there, as well as photos and recordings of his own flute performances.
- He doesn’t have any offsite backups.
So it looks like my best bet, assuming the worst, is to clone my Win 7 VM onto a new hard drive, then see what I can pull off the “backup drive” and the internal…
Never did like that uncle.
Heh. Grandpa just called saying his computer is so sluggish he can't use it anymore. Programs won't open.
Which seems very much like a hard drive on its way out.
Guess I'll head over after a coffee and do a bit of listening.