Poll on Backup software

TraderGary · Nov 11, 2022

siliconbeaver said:
computer user, no idea how Android phone cloud works.

On your Android phone, download Microsoft OneDrive from the Android Google Play Store.
Choose the OneDrive option to backup Android photos to cloud OneDrive.

In your Computer's local OneDrive /Pictures folder, your Android photos will now be found in the Camera Roll folder.

I absolutely love having all my Android photos seamlessly available on my Microsoft computer.

siliconbeaver · Nov 11, 2022

Thank you very much,

will try on my Samsung phone.

was thinking the Camera Roll was for Windows phone which was discontinued many years.

TraderGary · Nov 11, 2022

siliconbeaver said:
Thank you very much,

will try on my Samsung phone.

was thinking the Camera Roll was for Windows phone which was discontinued many years.

If you have old Windows Phone photos in your Camera Roll folder, they will remain there.
My Camera Roll folder has photos from all the phone cameras I've ever owned going back many years!
Another advantage of using OneDrive to save your camera photos is that they are saved at full resolution!

siliconbeaver · Nov 11, 2022

btw, I am IB user, or IB guru.

But I am NOT here often. once a week or a month.

TraderGary · Nov 11, 2022

Pardon my ignorance, but what is an "IB user"?

Badger · Nov 11, 2022

I know when I had my Android Samsung phone Samsung had there own backup util for the phone that you could download from their site be it Windows or Mac.

kado897 · Nov 12, 2022

Bree said:
Before Macrium I used Microsoft's System Image Backup extensively, 'Backup & Restore (Windows 7) - create a system image'.

Believe me, you cannot find a less configurable or more temperamental/unreliable backup that that!

And the hoops you had to jump through to have more than one image on a drive.

SlicEnDicE · Nov 12, 2022

TraderGary said:
OneDrive on my Android phone keeps all my phone photos backed up to cloud OneDrive. My Android apps will be restored by the Android Play Store when I get a new Android phone. I have never had a need to back up my Android phone.

I wish it was that simple for me... :wink:

TraderGary · Nov 12, 2022

SlicEnDicE said:
I wish it was that simple for me...

My phone data is mirrored on OneDrive. OneDrive is backed up with my computer backups. That's what makes it simple for me.

SlicEnDicE · Nov 12, 2022

TraderGary said:
My phone data is mirrored on OneDrive. OneDrive is backed up with my computer backups. That's what makes it simple for me.

I need a bigger OneDrive for that...currently have 1TB which of 800GB is in use by Windows and my phone has about 500GB of data...

kelper · Nov 12, 2022

I used EaseUs which was fine until I needed it. The restore failed and made my laptop unbootable. MR for me!
Acronis is good but I never needed all those features.

The only disadvantage with MR is you can't restore without a working mouse.

dbartenstein · Nov 12, 2022

In my experience MR backs up my data much faster than AOMEI, so I switched several months back.

Badger · Nov 12, 2022

dbartenstein said:
In my experience MR backs up my data much faster than AOMEI, so I switched several months back.

Just the opposite here.

TraderGary · Nov 12, 2022

kelper said:
I used EaseUs which was fine until I needed it. The restore failed and made my laptop unbootable. MR for me!
Acronis is good but I never needed all those features.

The only disadvantage with MR is you can't restore without a working mouse.

Or a laptop TouchPad. I use Macrium Reflect and don't use a mouse.

TraderGary · Nov 12, 2022

SlicEnDicE said:
I need a bigger OneDrive for that...currently have 1TB which of 800GB is in use by Windows and my phone has about 500GB of data...

That is a problem.

I'm fortunate that over my lifetime of photography I've always culled ruthlessly and saved only my best. Video uses huge amounts of data and I have very little video. My pictures folder is 184GB and currently contains 54,844 files. My Documents folder is 6.69GB and currently contains 5,299 files in 1,707 folders. My cloud OneDrive storage is currently just a little over 200GB. I have 1.04 TB of cloud OneDrive.

SlicEnDicE · Nov 12, 2022

TraderGary said:
That is a problem.

I'm fortunate that over my lifetime of photography I've always culled ruthlessly and saved only my best. Video uses huge amounts of data and I have very little video. My pictures folder is 184GB and currently contains 54,844 files. My Documents folder is 6.69GB and currently contains 5,299 files in 1,707 folders. My cloud OneDrive storage is currently just a little over 200GB. I have 1.04 TB of cloud OneDrive.

My 8k videos take up 10MB/s...I have days worth of videos

tinmar49 · Nov 12, 2022

I have just used Macrium Reflect because I needed to change an SSD for another, and it was successful. Unfortunately, I do not need this often enough to spend money on it and usually use Mini Tool Partition Wizard 10 which is on my other PC's. Of course, I had the latest free MTPW which is about as useful as a chocolate teapot installed on the pc that needed the cloning. I simply could not get the older version onto the pc, the sites which say they have it force something else on every time

Bree · Nov 12, 2022

tinmar49 said:
I have just used Macrium Reflect because I needed to change an SSD for another, and it was successful. Unfortunately, I do not need this often enough to spend money on it.....

I used Macrium Reflect Free for several years before I paid for it in one of their Black Friday discounts. The Free version does everything most users need.

siliconbeaver · Nov 12, 2022

@TraderGary
in my last login (a month ago), I was reading somewhere you were interactivebrokers user. Sorry I could be wrong.

TraderGary · Nov 12, 2022

siliconbeaver said:
@TraderGary
in my last login (a month ago), I was reading somewhere you were interactivebrokers user. Sorry I could be wrong.

@siliconbeaver Of course! Sorry, I was mentally trying to put the initials IB into the framework of some kind of computer usage.

I've traded full time with Interactive Brokers for over 20 years and the trading platform I use is their Trader Workstation. I'm a short-term trader and I have highly customized Trader Workstation's Chart Trader.

You say you're an IB Guru? Does that include being a Trader Workstation guru?

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