Did you ever try to restore ever? Wouldn't you be shocked if you did backups instead of cloning for 20 years and the day you need it, it just errors on restore? Yes this has happened to me. No more proprietary backups for me. I ain't going through that again. Only cloning for me and use that clone until the next time to make sure it works.
That is if you can. There are some machines that actually solder the drive on the motherboard. Or some other machines, they make it almost impossible to get to the drive. Then you don't have much of a choice.
I use both.
I do daily backups every night.
A monthly every month for the archive.
I like the clones when I am doing something I know is risky because I know I can be back up and running within 2 minutes with a clone. Restoring the backups requires more hoops to jump through, usually a bootable USB and a Linux process. And like Bill pointed out, sometimes the backups fail to restore.
Backups are great to recover a few files or whatever.
Clones are great as disaster recovery. If I have a clone in my hand I feel a lot better about trying something risky.
I have to think on this. OOOOps, I also need to learn on this.
I only buy laptops because I can stack them and use them independently from one desk. Of course, they also work as portable devices too. Doing this with desktop machines I would require another building and another 60A service coming in. I already have an extra 60A service coming in for the welder.
I purposely try to stay away from Dell machines since I don't like all of the proprietary parts they throw in. Are they still using those 3 pin power jacks that checks if the power brick is a genuine Dell or not for their laptops? And if the test fails, it refuses to charge the battery. Of course the third wire was very thin and it broke all of the time.
I use Macrium for file backup, scheduled incrementals and a monthly differentials and twice yearly full. I also clone the hard drives of both of the "important" machines, the backup machine itself and the "big" desktop that runs video surveillance. If a drive fails, all it takes is going into the BIOS and changing the boot drive to point to the clone.
Both my Alienware and Gateway laptops uses hard drive drawers. I just slide a drawer open and no cables to disconnect or anything since opening the drawer unplugs the drive. And I just lift that one out and pop another drive in its place and it takes no more than 5 seconds.
My Gateways M465 machines also sports another removable drive bay. Usually there is a DVD drive there, but with a press of a switch, it just slides out. And I can slide in a floppy drive, a second drive, or even a second battery.
When I was shopping around for Windows 10 laptops, I couldn't find anything that used removable bays or drawers anymore. Worse, I couldn't find anything even coming with swappable batteries anymore.
My Gateways M465 machines also sports another removable drive bay. Usually there is a DVD drive there, but with a press of a switch, it just slides out. And I can slide in a floppy drive, a second drive, or even a second battery.
When I was shopping around for Windows 10 laptops, I couldn't find anything that used removable bays or drawers anymore. Worse, I couldn't find anything even coming with swappable batteries anymore.
The question is why do you have TPM enabled in the first place. Do you also use BitLocker?
Nope, I don't TrollDragon. Lenovo set it up that way. And from what I read from Lenovo, if you turn TPM off in the BIOS, Windows 10 looses activation. The Windows 10 key is encrypted in the TPM chip and there is no way I can access it. My HP 2in1 laptops might also be setup that way, not sure.
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Here is the wiring for my HID conversion kit. I was thinking that it was going to be a bit difficult on the driver's side but won't be quite as bad as I thought. The ballasts are much smaller than I thought, they are roughly the size of a pack of regular filter cigarettes only a little thinner. Perhaps on the drivers side I'll just attach it with zip ties to something rather than screw it down.
I doubt that the grommet shown will actually be included, that is where the dust covers that I ordered will be used.
I doubt that the grommet shown will actually be included, that is where the dust covers that I ordered will be used.
My order was pick up a 1 PM on Monday in Quebec and out for delivery in San Diego. Now that's my idea of fast and free shipping.
(Fedex)
Dust covers are also out for delivery.
The capacitors are a least moving, a couple more days for those.
(Fedex)
Dust covers are also out for delivery.
The capacitors are a least moving, a couple more days for those.
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