I lost almost all my load data for .455.
Short search turned up most of it.
Pro: "I can do a search, and find most- if not all- of what I lost!"
Con: "If I'd had this crap written down instead of trusting the PC, I'd never have lost it."
And yes, I thought I had it backed up.
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There's also this invention called a printer...
:P
Same thing happened to me with brewing recipes and data. I still use the brewing software that I have, but now I print out each recipe, too.......
I still keep a small notebook as a backup with my go-to loads that I'd be supremely PO'd if I lost.
It makes up for the unlabeled ziploc bags with 5 test rounds in it that I was was going to test in, like 5 minutes so I don't need to label. Months ago.
My inertial puller has paid for itself god knows how many times.
For years I've been using multiple physical hard drives in the same computer: one for just the operating system, others for all my Stuff. This method has saved my Stuff on more than one occasion. If the OS - Windows, most notoriously - barfs all over itself, or the system drive physically dies, the Stuff remains unaffected. Tedious to reconstruct the desktop icons and shortcuts, but at least the Stuff remains.
Likewise I've been backing up all my browser bookmarks in an Export file, on one of those other drives, every week, since the last crash.
And I just happened across this today, a new 2Tb drive for $50:
https://www.ebay.com/i/113201697311
No law against having more than one.
I've got a 2-tb external; problem is forgetting to use it for about three weeks, when some changes were made...
And my printer is an acolyte of the devil; "I will allow you to print tod- oops, changed my mind!
xcopy/s/e/v/y/m
echo Starting Backup >>
echo.|time|find.exe "current" >>
echo.|date|find.exe "current" >>
The /m switch on xcopy only copies files that have their archive attribute set then unsets the archive flag after it's done. The echo commands find the current date and time and the >> redirect the text to a log file you specify.
If you put those into a batch file and schedule a task to run that batch file at set intervals you can make an unattended backup that only updates the backup file with things that have changed since the last time the backup ran.
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