Solved System Repair

[web]

Hi all was about to upload my system repair folder to dropbox but then i thought is this safe to do ? ...... or is the better way to do this ?

 

[Layback Bear]

What exactly is your system repair folder?
Please explain what problems your computer has and what you are trying to do.

 

[web]

sorry should say system image ..... I made a system image saved on separate internal hard drive but wanted to save to a cloud based thing for want of better words but didn't now if this was safe to do ?

 

[Layback Bear]

To me anything in a cloud is subject to bad things happening to a larger degree than keeping your image in house.
On my computer I do as you have done. Save it to a separate drive.
If you have access to the internet with just that computer a image in a cloud would not help.

 

[Mark Phelps]

While you might be able to save images to a "cloud", even if you could do a restore from the "cloud", I would advise strongly against it -- as any drop in network connection would cause the restore to fail. You want to run a restore from something hard-wired to your PPC, preferable, an external drive or another internal drive.

 

[web]

I wouldn't restore from a cloud site just save the system file there I was asking is this safe to do ?

 

[Layback Bear]

Each cloud has it's own security. As far as I know nobody know which one is safer than the others.
Whether it is safe or not is always a question.
I know for sure it is safer on a separate hard drive that you have position of.

 

[Mark Phelps]

I wouldn't restore from a cloud site just save the system file there I was asking is this safe to do ?

Any "cloud provider" is going to say YES -- after all, they want your business.

If external drives cost a fortune (which they don't), or using them to do backups and restores was really difficult (which it's not), then I could see using "the cloud" as a cheap, simple solution.

But personally, I'm not will to trade the security of keeping my valuable data local to me, for the convenience of transferring it across a network to a sever farm over which I have absolutely no control.

But ... that's just my choice.

 

[whs]

Yje cloud is as safe as the cloud owners made it. But why on earth would you want to put your whole system there - including passwords, product keys, etc.

 

[web]

Yje cloud is as safe as the cloud owners made it. But why on earth would you want to put your whole system there - including passwords, product keys, etc.

Finally a answer but did u just say that, or do u know that ????? surely u cant hack it like looking in windows from that file ????

pss when things have gone bad in the past ive been asked for a network drive or network save ect isn't this the above like thing ???

 

[whs]

I did not make this up. That's how it is. And cloud is network drive.

 

[web]

I did not make this up. That's how it is. And cloud is network drive.

sorry didn't mean u made anything up .... but have been lead to believe that having a system copy on a network drive is a good thing ??? ........ starting to think this not a good idea ?

are there no secure network drives, places u could use, I mean I use to run a small website with easy space it had security same as your pc would ?

 

[whs]

Nothing on the web is really secure. And the more you spread your data, the more you are subject to fraud.

I backup my systems to external disks that are disconnected when not in use. That makes it very difficult to get to that data.

 

[web]

doing the save to dvd was even worst lol, how can windows be on one disc, but the save be on so many ???

 

[whs]

This is an image of your whole stuff. The data in that partition (or partitions) must be over 150GB. You never put that on DVDs. Use an external disk instead.

This is absolutely not the same as an installation disc that comes on 1 DCD.

 

[web]

ok will be looking for reliable external disk thanks for all your help