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Re: [LUG] NTFS drive unmountable

 

I would prefer to fund the British Economy - do you know of a British
equivalent of Spideroak?

Phil

On 19/07/13 10:14, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, Philip Whateley wrote:
>
>> Thanks Gordon.
>>
>> That's roughly what I thought.
>>
>> There isn't much on the drive of value that I don't have elsewhere,
>> other than backups that haven't worked, so not a problem in binning it.
>>
>> I'm using NTFS purely because that is what it was formatted as
>> originally. I tried re-formatting to ext3 and couldn't work out how to
>> mount it so reformatted back using a windows machine.
>>
>> Restore was working with a previous version of sbackup - stupidly I
>> assumed that if a beta version worked then a release version would too,
>> but I'll test properly next time!!!
>>
>> So the next question is, given that I probably only need to back up
>> ~50Gb, would I be better paying $100 / year for 100Gb off-site back-up
>> with Spideroak?
>
> $100? You're happy to fund the US economy then? Why not fund the British?
>
> Gordon
>


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