Until now i liked XOJO...I hope to like it again

Bugs and Feature Requests
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Inspired by your answers here, thank you very much :slight_smile:
I tried to save my files in a cloudā€¦
When downloading again, 1 file of 1000 was corrupted, 4 MB of 270 MBā€¦

Does anybody know an affordable software which backups files and proofs them for consistency afterwards?

Thank you , Rolf.

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Maybe better saving backups at home and praying that your house will not burning down?..

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FWIW, I use a service called BackBlaze for offsite backups. I have it configured for continuous backup and I do not run into the issues you are seeing.

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Iā€™ve used BackBlaze on several machines for some time. Its web UI file restore browser is a little clunky, but itā€™s never failed me when Iā€™ve needed to restore a file. Money well spent.

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In a younger, previous version of myself, I did mechanical forensic analysis of all sort of failures - which included automobile, train, and aviation accidents. It is amazing how many times the teams I was on determine exactly the cause of the accident just by looking at the one major piece of evidence. Itā€™s all about knowing how the systems work. If you know how the systems work, the evidence can provide all of the base model info that you need to reconstruct the events leading up to the event.

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Or, put you dev work backups onto a portable device such as a TB or USB SSD or NVME solution like I do (sales pitch warning :slight_smile: )

OWC Envoy Express

Envoy Pro Mini

I keep my Mini on my keychain so itā€™s almost always in my pocket or the first thing I grab when I head for our storm shelter (tornadoes are a thing here).

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If youā€™re on a Mac then there is obviously TimeMachine.

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The Mini solution sounds good :slight_smile:
And may god keep the tornados away from you, dear Timā€¦

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Thanks, @Rolf_Schindler. So far weā€™ve only witnessed close calls because weā€™re up a mountainside, but we use the room quite regularly. We have our main backup system for the house in there, as well.

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Here is mine

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Maybe https://www.goodsync.com/ is something for you?
For private use i choosed: ChronoSync | The Ultimate Mac Backup and File Sync App

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They have just updated the client to have a restore UI.

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Iā€™m running 8.5.0.694 under MacOS, and Check for Updates says I have the latest. When I select ā€œRestore Filesā€ from the BackBlaze menu, it takes me to the web UI.

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Some details on the new restore process below. (looks like itā€™s in early access)

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Well, i tried a cloud storage thenā€¦
I upladed about 1000 files, 270 MB.
After downloading again, 1 file, 4.2 MB was corrupted.It was a project fileā€¦

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Itā€™s pretty much the same clunky UI, but brought to your desktop instead of browser, with the additional disadvantage that you donā€™t have the password auto-fill of a browser.

It still has the huge annoyances of

  • making you wait until itā€™s downloaded the file hierarchy before you can set the restore date, making you wait twice every time.
  • making you navigate the entire hierarchy starting at the root to get to any file. My usual use case is restoring a single file that Iā€™ve managed to screw up, and that file is almost always going to be in MacHD/Users/Julia/Projects/Company/Projects/ā€¦ so itā€™d be really nice if there was a shortcut to get there without having to click and wait at every directory level.

Looking at pCloud as an alternative, it appears to have a much nicer UI.

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I had the exact same problem with a project file saved to Dropbox. This solved the problem and saved my A$$. About 20 hours of work would have been lost. Lesson learned. THANK YOU!

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I find this really ironically humorous since the whole purpose of a backup is to be able to restore ā€¦ but that just me.

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Backblaze uses only AES-128 encryption on their server, thats not state of the art and less secure than AES-256.