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How do you backup your data at home?
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(Score: 2) by dltaylor on Friday September 04 2015, @10:59AM
You back things up religiously, perhaps, but can you restore some semblance of a running system from the backups (with, possibly, install media provide a base system)? If the backups are all just file data, then you can just try to read the files with an appropriate application, and hope the newer versions can read the old version files. This does not always work, however. Some time ago the nice folks at mozilla changed the file formats for Thunderbird/Icedove sufficiently that I could not import them into a newer installation (emacs is a life-saver sometimes).
I want to make some changes to an HTC 510, and HTC has the tools to do it. Immediately as the "ROM" is unlocked, all personal data is erased (according to the documentation). There is a backup program, and I have done it a few times, but I have not yet tested restoring, so I have no idea if the backup have any value, whatsoever. I'm a bit apprehensive about manually re-entering what data is on the phone, in case the restore procedure doesn't work, but I cannot wait much longer to try the restore.