Title

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Problem

I am sending my Windows disk for data recovery, as it is not detected due to bad NAND (needs translator rebuild) or if I am lucky a capacitor is shorted.

Question

1. I assume I wouldn't be able to boot the windows installation.
2. How to extract as much data as I can.
3. How to know what data is NOT recovered ?or is damaged.

Data I think is most important -

1. Files
2. Userdata folder
3. List of browser extension (chrome, firefox)
4. Extension data.
5. chrome://flags.
6. Bookmarks.
7. Taskbar pinned app list
8. List of installed UWP apps.
9. What else am I forgetting ?

How my disk died - https://lemmy.ml/post/44287756

How to set up like this with features -

1. Forever full backups/DeDuplication
2. Option Delete changes older than x.
3. How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data,
4. Save a "Ghost" for other data (internet data not personal) which is only Filename, Metadata and Folder-Structure.
5. "File Change Tracker" to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed.
6. "File History" where I see previous version of files.
7. Config from inside folders for disks (not OS) with e.g..backupconfigfile containing e.g. backup=1, or have select file backuped/not-backed-up.

To Backup

• External and Internal Disk (files) and OSes to backup,
• Backup select data from Disks,
• all separately backup-ed to the same backup disk, .

Dead but FOSS

https://github.com/zmanda/amanda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List/_of/_backup/_software

Freemium

Backup and Imaging

Disk Imaging

Sync Software

Cloud

https://www.reddit.com/r/Backup/wiki/index/cloud/_backup/_services/backblaze/

Info

~~Incremental backup method, where I only make full backups once ,~~

~~Question - as i understand from "grandfather,father,son" method - that Full backups are still necessary when using snapshots/incremental backups, why is that ?~~

"deduplication" is of 2 types

Data/Block de-duplication - tech to reduce amount storage required. This breaks files upon into chunks and creates a DB. Data de-duplication is influenced heavily by data type. Data de-duplication is a waste of time with compressed multimedia and encrypted data. Data de-duplication is often incorporated into backup products and can exist in independently, its built into some file system types (Windows server and some Linux).

File deduplication - Removing identical files. by comparing the whole file. Homelabers and home users are more worried about this than commercial environments. In commercial environments users and projects are usually allocated a quota storage space and its up to them how they want to manage it.

Incrementals Forever and Synthetic Full Backup - incremental may/not have de-duplication. They can also use Change Block Tracking (CBT) to save a lot of backup time.

"Forever Full" are simply a variation on synthetic full backups with data deduplication and CBT being optional.

Data deduplication occurs when you:

• Have multiple copies of the same data across multiple machines e.g. the operating system files of the computers you are backing up.
• Data that has not changed since you last successive backup. This includes files that have partially changed, only new unique data is added to the dedupe database/repository. Old Post about methodology - https://lemmy.ml/post/44433232

I want to save SSD write cycles and will use intel HDD

To save SSD write cycles

~~What Linux File Manager project would be interested in adding more features ?~~ Windows File Explorer is the best in terms of features, most Linux File managers lack basic functionality.

If someone dares to point that on redit they get "Then go use windows" (Linux is not a religion). or it's opensource go do it yourself.

Is there a File Manager project that would like to implement features, there are many projects that allow feature request but don't act on it.

I got many ideas.

I remember seeing a video about it but can;t find it on google

https://web.archive.org/web/20120304202043/http://www.vtaskstudio.com/support.php

https://github.com/Seabreg/Regshot

1. I like Incremental backup methodology, but it needs frequent full backups (as i understand from "grandfather,father,son" method), How to have version control where i only create full-backup only once ?

2. and I can choose to Delete changes older than 1 month.

3. How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data,

4. and a "Ghost" for other data. Ghost is only filename and it's metadata (also folder structure). Data selected for Ghost is from internet which can be downloaded.

Related

5. "file change tracker" to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed.

6. "File History" where I see previous version of files.

Software ?

1. Seems like https://restic.net/ is best as it's enterprise trusted works on all OS,

How do I set it up like I described in the Original Post.

I have a external disk and internal HDD, I want to backup select data, to a 3rd disk, both backup to the same disk, both separately backup-ed.

There is also -

2. Pika (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/pika-backup , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo) ,
3. https://www.borgbackup.org/ ,
4. Rsync - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
5. RClone - https://github.com/rclone/rclone , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCIi-NxJEo
6. https://www.urbackup.org/download.html (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXGVzMUsuE4 , https://christitus.com/urbackup/)

I want to have windows image but have it saved incrementally Is there a way only backup data created by me so the backup is small, and I pull the windows OS data from ISO.

Nice to only backup "user data"