Are there any programs exactly like NT Backup, but for Windows 7 ?

mulambo · 18 Dec 2020

Well, tbh I don't trust clouds very much, I mean... it's my data, why should I share it with strangers? As you said, also, nobody knows what happens to the servers and I don't have a great connection anyway. I can understand a private cloud (like a Intranet or something) but I see this cloud thing (very modern / contemporary thing) very suspiciously, especially if it regards private informations. In terms of money it's basically a virtually infinite hard drive for rent. Buying one makes me more comfortable and secure, but again... the big limit is space.

About AOMEI, well, I tried it and it's a big big program, in terms of size... in terms of utility it has basically the same functions of many other freeware tools and utilities out there. What's suspicious about it it's the size, I would doubt there's more than just a very expensive shell in there. Case 1: coders are nuts, Case 2: coders are hiding something, Case 3: they make it "weight" more just to make it look more "affordable" (but anyway, they're taking advantage of folks, as a little search on google and a little more information can bring people to better softwares... and for free!). All of this is just a bunch of theories, too much paranoia, I just discarded it and tried less expensive solutions (in terms of memory and RAM usage).

About all the rest, well yeah I get you're very experienced in terms of backing up stuff, but actually my point is exactly like that: I need a third party software that acts like system software (so no conflicts with the system). Imaging and partition copy could be actually a problem in terms of restoring only what I need. NTBackup, as regards my experience, was precise and effective... but it worked on XP only. Windows 7 uses 2 confusing methods for backup, and I've also experienced failures in them (very stressful failures, since I had to reinstall it over again).
So, yeah, I keep hoping that Cobian 11 will do the job well, as nothing else seems to equal the potential of NTBackup. Unfortunely I have limiting connection (just 30GB per month) so I must save on file size, and also my hardware is limited (a couple of hard disks), sometimes I must even use DVD's (well, a blue-ray would be better... but again: money issues).
Thanks for your help though, I think I'd evaluate the Clonezilla option ( since usually any software that ends with -zilla is a good one, lol).

file3456 · 19 Dec 2020

mulambo said:

I think I'd evaluate the Clonezilla option ( since usually any software that ends with -zilla is a good one, lol).

Not necessarily. Don't put blind faith in market product names. For example, Filezilla is the go to FTP client by many, but for me I shy away of the popular for reasons I can't quite express, but it turns out that a lot of my not wanting to follow what everyone else does proves smart on my part. In the case of Filezilla it does not default to binary mode so when you transfer images back and forth from your server you WILL corrupt them. Many people don't know this and yet freely use the FTP client until they have a rude awakening. If you use Filezilla you need to turn on binary mode. I use a very decent FTP client called WinSCP and it has everything you could ever ask for and can navigate an Amazon AWS S3 bucket as well. And it defaults to binary mode by default.

The other "zilla." Mozilla. At one time they were great, very great in fact. I used the Mozilla Suit browser and email client back then. Then the Phoenix browser (precursor to Firefox), and of course used Firefox for years and years and customized my install like no one's business. Then around circa 2008 came Chrome and everyone and their great uncle went Chrome for some stupid reason so Mozilla lost market share. So ever since then Firefox started to copy Chrome in every way possible and introducing a whole bunch of telemetry in the browser along the way. They say they focus on privacy and what not. Not so. I block at least four of their telemetry domains at OpenDNS and in my hosts file. Mozilla also ousted their CEO because of his political beliefs. So much for the 1st amendment and our Constitution rights. If big tech doesn't like your political stance then out you go. That isn't right. If I ran a tech company, I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican, Wig, Tea Party, Independent, black, brown, white, yellow, pink or cyan. I hired you because you are capable of doing the job duties and making my (our) company prosper. Unfortunately for big tech like Twitter, Facebook, Google et al they're going to have a very rude awaking.

Now the other aforementioned "zilla." Clonezilla. It's name has the "zilla" but its software isn't all contrived with nonsense and it just does what it's suppose to do: clone. Nothing more, nothing less.

So I guess the question becomes: is it all in a name? I don't think so. In my humble opinion that is.

Footnotes.

Backlash Against Brendan Eich Crossed A Line

Clonezilla - Wikipedia

FileZilla - Wikipedia

phpBB • [Solved] SFTP in FileZilla with phpBB - Page 2

mulambo · 19 Dec 2020

F22 Simpilot said:

In the case of Filezilla it does not default to binary mode so when you transfer images back and forth from your server you WILL corrupt them.

Thanks for the tip, I just discovered it was set to "Automatic" by default, never checked that option before (didn't know about it actually). But it still remains a good freeware to me, I only know FlashXP as alternative or CuteFTP and one is freetotry, the other I don't remember what it was.

If big tech doesn't like your political stance then out you go.

Yeah, lol, but I guess it's generally like "if your boss doesn't like you, you're fired", politics are just part of the "like factor". Yeah, Firefox got overloaded with a lot of useless features... and I don't really like the fact that every add-on needs to be updated according to the browser's update (I also don't like many sites don't even recognize older firefox versions as "suitable browser" )... but it's still a good choice for me, like Filezilla.

I block at least four of their telemetry domains at OpenDNS and in my hosts file.

Interesting, how to do that ?

I hired you because you are capable of doing the job duties and making my (our) company prosper.

Yep, but unfortunely prosperity leans toward the right wing, where the money-obsesseds are (somebodys say c*caine-addicts as well, but I didn't say that lol).

So I guess the question becomes: is it all in a name? I don't think so.

Neither I, just talked about my experience about the -zilla suffix in medias, it's all stuff that I'm usually leaned to appreciate ( other mentionable examples: the song Godzilla, Godzilla itself, etc...).

file3456 · 19 Dec 2020

mulambo said:

Interesting, how to do that ?

I'll tell you the easy way for the hosts file method. Download and install Everything.exe. Downloads - voidtools If your computer is 64 bit, use the 64 bit version installer.

Now in Everything search for hosts. The path will be, C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Right click the hosts file and open the path. Temporally rename hosts to hosts.txt. You may have to go into your Control Panel | Folder Options and allow to show file extensions.

Now once you have the hosts file opened as a text document add the following after this line:

# ::1 localhost.

Code:

127.0.0.1 download.cdn.mozilla.net 
127.0.0.1 aus5.mozilla.org 
127.0.0.1 download.mozilla.org
127.0.0.1 firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
127.0.0.1 d2nxq2uap88usk.cloudfront.net
127.0.0.1 proxyserverecs-1736642167.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
127.0.0.1 locprod2-elb-us-west-2.prod.mozaws.net
127.0.0.1 autopush.prod.mozaws.net
127.0.0.1 prod.pocket.prod.cloudops.mozgcp.net
127.0.0.1 prod.detectportal.prod.cloudops.mozgcp.net

Anything with a # in front of it comments that entry out so that it won't be used.

After you're done adding those domains to your hosts file save and rename the hosts file from hosts.txt to just hosts as was before. As an added security precaution, right click the hosts file and chose properties and mark the file read only. That will help if malware tries to add its own entries to your hosts file. It's not 100% full proof, but better than nothing. If you want to edit the hosts file again you will have to temporally untick read only so that you can edit the fie.

Now I like to edit damn near everything with Notepad ++. When I search for hosts in Everything.exe I can just right click the hosts file in Everything and open with notepad ++, But it appears the new version of Everything doesn't allow that. At least it won't work on my laptop. It does here on my desktop with Everything version 1.4.1.877 (x64). The version on my laptop is 1.4.1.969. So this is why I explained the .txt editing route. Unless of course you want to use an older version of Everything and install Notepad ++.

This may cripple your browser in some way I'm sure. So far so good for me though. But I don't use Firefox that much unless I have to. I use the niche browser Pale Moon. The download.mozilla.org domain may be for add-on updates. I'd have to find out. What 127.0.0.1 does is send the domain to localhost, i.e null. So it can't go out and reach the server. This list of domains may not be complete and could change at any time. This is just what I have captured while packet sniffing my network traffic.

For OpenDNS you'll have to create an OpenDNS account and add the two OPenDNS domain server IPs to your router or network card's domain name server IPs. Then in your OpenDNS account block list add those domains. Not the 127.0.0.1 part. Been a happy OpenDNS user since 2008. If you want an explanation on how to use OpenDNS then check out Network Chuck's video here: block ADULT sites and other BAD STUFF on your home network (EASY) - YouTube

How he was able to use his Amazon Echo Show like that was with the IFTTT website. If you want to go that far then check out their website and see what it has to offer. IFTTT literally means, If This Then That. Of course anyone can voice command an Echo. LOL

Now if you notice on NetworkChuck's video, when he got a block from OpenDNS it should have showed his custom block page, but instead shows a TLS error. The reason for that is because you need to install Cisco's TLS certificate in your computer or browser certificate store. This was never a problem prior to Cisco buying OpenDNS. Block Page Errors: Installing the Cisco Umbrella Root CA – OpenDNS

Going further. If you would like to block Nvidea telemetry crap, then add the following domains to the hosts file and/or OpenDNS blocks. Yes, there is a mountain of Nvidea telemetry crap poring out of your computer if you use an Nvidea driver. These are the domains I have captured, it may not be complete and could change at anytime. By the way, I would never install their Experience component. Just stupid fluff you don't need for a GPU driver.

Code:

127.0.0.1 gfwsl.geforce.com
127.0.0.1 gfe.geforce.com
127.0.0.1 telemetry.nvidia.com
127.0.0.1 gfe.nvidia.com
127.0.0.1 telemetry.gfe.nvidia.com
127.0.0.1 events.gfe.nvidia.com
127.0.0.1 activation-dc1.gfe.nvidia.com
127.0.0.1 activation.gfe.nvidia.com
::1 activation.gfe.nvidia.com
::1 activation-dc1.gfe.nvidia.com
::1 gfwsl.geforce.com
::1 gfe.geforce.com
::1 telemetry.nvidia.com
::1 gfe.nvidia.com
::1 telemetry.gfe.nvidia.com
::1 events.gfe.nvidia.com

Yep, but unfortunely prosperity leans toward the right wing, where the money-obsesseds are (somebodys say c*caine-addicts as well, but I didn't say that lol).
Neither I, just talked about my experience about the -zilla suffix in medias, it's all stuff that I'm usually leaned to appreciate ( other mentionable examples: the song Godzilla, Godzilla itself, etc...).

Free market capitalism is neither left-wing or right-wing. It doesn't side with any one religious belief, sex, race or creed. The old adage that said only those that were Republican or right-wing were rich fat cats is just nonsense. The owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world worth around $184 billion with a B dollars. Though, I've heard Putin could be worth a lot as well, I don't think no one knows for sure and don't let Wikipedia et al be your fact finder. Now Jeff Bezos is no right wing man by any stretch of the imagination. He just gave away 10 billion to climate change non profits. 10 billion! I would have gave it to St. Jude which is a children's cancer treatment hospital.

Bill Gates? The creator of the Windows OS? He's no right-wing guy either. He's worth around $119 billion.

The top three richest people in the world are:

1) Bezos

2) Gates

3) Bernard Arnault

The top two are left-wing.

Footnotes.

Is Bill Gates a Democrat or Republican? - Quora

What Is Jeff Bezos'''s Political Party?

Donor Lookup • OpenSecrets

Donor Lookup • OpenSecrets

They're voting R because they want to keep their money. LMAO! It's like I shall support this, but don't take my money for this.

Oh! Cocaine addicts? There's rumors, maybe hard prof that Bill Clinton was a coke head and his staff were coke heads as well. I guess some of that crap goes all the way to his governor days in Arkansas.

Anyway, enough with the political BS. History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man...

mulambo · 19 Dec 2020

I don't know why, but Everything doesn't look for the file hosts.
I've also tried opening it with notepad++ or renaming... another process is using so I cannot save or edit it.

about the left/right wing stuff, yeah, probably that's something we have lost in time, the capitalist/socialist dualism worked as economic theories just in the past. nowadays there's no more distinction, no more political identity, it's total chaos (unfortunely, not totall anarchy)... people earn from values, they exploit ideologies, anything can make money (as long as people want that thing, and this justifies the incredible amount of bulls*t sold on Amazon and similar esellers, or the creation of consummeristic niches) and money/success itself has become the only value.
One of the greatest examples of corruption of morality and the total lack of ethics due to modern mass disidentification is that dude from China who was known for his "animal rights activism" but then an undercover footage revealed he just PAID people to torture animals and by recording such videos he convinced a lot of donors to give their money away to him.
That is just one example of many more scammers which make this world more cynical year by year.
Misery increases misery.

That's why Bezos, Gates and similar "powerful" people are the best "examples" or "models" of humanity, the ones who get more praise and attention, because they have what people crave : financial security. Despite the fact that Bezos exploits his employees and Gates may just be a normal businessman who got rich by his own hands, honestly I would do the same things they do if I had a lot of money like them... but so much money for a single person... that is the real nonsense.
Just because we forgot the meaning of a certain word, it doesn't mean that word has no meaning.

Same goes for ideologies: just because we have lost hope or faith, it doesn't mean they cannot be achieved back. We just have to stop entertainment from being so prominent in our culture, but that's a whole different story.

All those people you see getting richer and richer... they all do it because they wanna shine amongst the others, they wanna fake divinity, but they're just slaves to their self-perception (to not confuse with the "ego" , which is actually a good thing in the psychological structure of a human being). In fact, those people just do it for the likes, the envy or jealousy of others. They have no real self-esteem that's why they need to exploit, to humiliate others, to command, to prevail, to stand on the top of the hill (where they cannot even breathe).

Not casually at all you mentioned Putin, a dictator, lol

I can tell you I'm beyond this illusion of power. If you need other people to confirm your self-esteem, then it means you're insecure. So such people act out of their own insecurity. They're so successful because their level of fear is more than common humans, or just for pure luck.

I remember a sentence by Takeshi Kitano in one of his movies "Sonatine" :
<< Maybe I'm so able in killing others, because I'm too scared to kill myself. >>
That's sums up the predatory compulsion of economics lately.

to shorten it all : we're all objectivists today

file3456 · 21 Dec 2020

So a couple of things. If you type in the word, hosts in Everything.exe it doesn't show up? There should be several actually. The hosts file you're looking for is in the path C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.

If you went to that path and can't edit it then that tells me a couple of things. Either it's marked as read only, or a firewall/anti-virus is blocking you from editing it.

About Bezos, Gates and Putin. LOL Both Bezos and Gates are interesting people in their own right. They both had the business acumen to do what they have did and it has paid off for them. Just like Zuckerberg and Facebook, or Jack Dorsey of Twitter, or Musk of several companies. Now with Gates, Bezos and Musk, I personally look up to them in the sense that they have the skills to do what they did are are like the Rockefellers, Edison, Carnegie, etc of America's industrial revolution. Except here in the 21st century we have a technical revolution of sorts and that pretty much started when the vacuum tube was replaced by the transistor. Now with Jack Dorsey and Zuckerberg they are very interesting people in every sense of the word and history will record that Twitter helped to topple a government, spread ideas and bring political advertising and opinion to the palm of your hand or on your computer screen. But, BUT, this is immense power and so far it look like Facebook and Twitter are not adhering to the framework that is the U.S. Constitution with the the 1st amendment. We know that they will outright ban anyone they want for any purpose. Now of course there is a limit as to what you would want being spewed on the platform, but it doesn't really follow a fair and balanced approach. For instance, Facebook or Twitter may ban all opinion, discussion, and conjecture relating to the latest crap called QAnon, but at the same time allow crap relating to radical Islam or Chinese propaganda that systematically violates human rights on a day by day basis. This is not exactly the theocracy of a progressive/liberal mind. It's the theocracy of the likes of Stalin or Chairman Mao. Once upon a time the left was about the free expression of ideas and rights. Now the left has seemly gone farther and farther left. And I see that on an almost daily basis here on the news with the erasing of the past by virtue of tearing down statues, renaming schools or burning books much like what Nazism was all about. Don't believe it, read a damn history book.

Speaking of books, it would be very wise to own paper versions before its too late...

I end with this song. Revolution (Remastered 2009) - YouTube

file3456 · 21 Dec 2020

Oh! Forgot about Putin. Putin is also an interesting fellow, but I don't think a business acumen kind of guy but more on the lines of politics. He comes from the KGB and I believe thinks the old way of things even though the iron curtain turned to rust and blew away in the wind. Sometimes I feel like Qorbachev had more sense. I see he's still alive today and has several books. When Reagan passed away, I saw Qorbachev on TV at the funeral. I thought that was pretty damn impressive given the history. Remember that old speech by Reagan known the world over? "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." It was on November 9th 1989 that I saw the Berlin wall fall live on TV under Gorbachev's presidency. Flash forward to the year 2014 and Putin annexes Crimea. Da faq?! Then there was that whole Georgia/Ossetia conflict, but I think there may be blame on both sides with that one. I could go on...

RolandJS · 21 Dec 2020

The proof is in the Putin...

AWN7F · 21 Dec 2020

Late POST:

There was instance of did the back up for win7 that should probably does needed because the back up you can find other missing files there in last or old windows that has been running on your system and then do this thing that and this like find all your missing game instead , for example like this application that named filefinder.exe

filefinder.zip

with this application try find the lost file in explorer in back up files of your win7.

IMPORTANT:
For existence in any avoid and fetching bug to break in case of apply to get in to some priviledge environment you should enable Restore System just make sure the file at service call restore is auto and run at any bug you had prevent by renew it the Restore again thats for disclose the bug came to breach into your file caching system, and NT back up just goes like this but do it in cause "use restricted"

PowerShellV2_SDK_Samples.zip

and do this for instance you sure what is you were doing for build new virtual of intelligence evaluate the base 6 and 60 then generate wave at places as low or high and at end even on load then sanitize on unload like this build exp files

vssreports.zip.

It is expected that Machine Learning (ML) will shift to AutoML to allow programmers to solve problems without creating models.

For instance, optical reading uses low layers to identify edges, and higher layers to identify letters.
see this:

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mulambo · 21 Feb 2021

uhm... whut ?