00:12:51 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca Don't forget - we are in the last few days for the 2-for-one special on new memberships! 00:13:50 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Last Call for Special Membership Offer If you are not a OPCUG member, or if you know someone who wants to join our club, now is the time! Until March 31st, anyone buying a one-year membership for the regular annual fee of $20.00 will receive a second year's membership at no charge. BUT, THIS OFFER ENDS AFTER MARCH 31st. SO, JOIN NOW!!! https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ [Note that current members need not renew their membership. The BOD will extend your membership by a year at no cost!] 00:15:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG Post Q and A Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/OPCUGPostQandAJitsi 00:16:39 Tom Trottier: KITS glasses - https://www.kits.ca/ 00:16:52 Tom Trottier: and no, you don't have to assemble them.... 00:18:26 Jeff Dubois: And this should be Zeeni Optical. https://www.zennioptical.com/ 00:18:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Quadratic AI-powered spreadsheet https://www.quadratic.ai/teacherstech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg5_eUy8Qbg 00:19:25 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Quadratic AI-powered..." with âĪïļ 00:19:46 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Chris's E-mail chris.taylor@opcug.ca 00:20:06 Bob Herres: Replying to "Quadratic AI-powered..." Thank you Tom / & Chris 00:21:28 Tom Trottier: Cheap glasses from China - https://ca.goggles4u.com/ - longer delivery time 00:24:59 E O'Driscoll: So about Quadratic...I guess a non numeric non hypen character would be ignored, or would it stop the Python process. Just wondering. 00:25:12 Jocelyn Doire: Will it work with other program such as LibreOffice and Google doc? 00:25:28 E O'Driscoll: Replying to "So about Quadratic....." I'll tryi it out. 00:26:01 E O'Driscoll: Replying to "So about Quadratic....." Many thanks ! I'll try to stump it. 00:27:03 Graham: Are there privacy concerns if you have confidential data? 00:27:10 Jocelyn Doire: I would remove all char other than digits, add 613 if len=7, then add char as desired 00:27:55 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Ask Leo - DISM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka-FIiZK2k 00:28:28 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: How secure are messaging apps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8CF3HXjtO8 00:28:56 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): SuggestionBox@opcug.ca Any questions? 00:29:29 Carol Pearson: Signal? 00:29:45 Rosemary: Reacted to "Signal?" with 😃 00:29:49 Tom Trottier: Also - system File Checker fixes munged system files - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxCueZ2dVQ 00:30:05 Tom Trottier: MS windows tool 00:30:23 Timothy: You just have to be aware of who you add. 00:31:06 Coreen: Good one Carol ðŸĪŠ 00:31:36 E O'Driscoll: Reacted to "Signal?" with 😄 00:32:05 Tom Trottier: ALSO program settings need backing up! 00:32:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "ALSO program setting..." Wait for it... 😁 00:33:25 Tom Trottier: btw, PatchMyPC can also download programs that are new to you! 00:35:06 Tom Trottier: Looks easy! 00:36:16 Tom Trottier: Belarc will also list parts 00:37:03 Tom Trottier: https://www.belarc.com/products/belarc-advisor 00:38:56 Kabahenda: Where do you buy the 2TB Internal Solid-State Drive? 00:39:12 Kabahenda: How expensive it? 00:39:29 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Any computer store (e.g. Canada Computers) is a local option. 00:39:32 Tom Trottier: Some computers also come with multiple NVME M.2 drive places. NVME can be 20x faster than any SATA SSD. 00:40:27 Tom Trottier: https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca 00:40:34 Stew Bruce: Tom, Alan, another app updater/installer is the website ninite.com 00:41:18 Tom Trottier: https://ninite.com/ 00:41:31 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Tom, Alan, another a..." Stew - can it install an SSD for you? ðŸĪĢ 00:41:50 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Tom, Alan, another a..." sata or nvme? 00:42:04 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Tom, Alan, another a..." 😁 00:42:44 Tom Trottier: Finding files on your system - https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ 00:42:44 Coreen: Bob, are any files encrypted or password protected? 00:43:08 Carol Pearson: do you date your copy for versions? 00:43:27 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Bob, are any files e..." It wouldn't matter whether the files are encrypted or not 00:43:56 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): FreeFileSync creates a current snapshot by updating files and folders on the target (backup) drive 00:44:24 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): But, it does have versionning capacity (that I never use) 00:44:50 Carol Pearson: but it doesn't save multiple copies 00:44:54 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "do you date your cop..." You can use FreeFileSync to save copies for versioning. I talked about it at a few Q&A sessions - I will find the references. 00:45:09 Jeff Dubois: Well done Bob. 00:45:18 Tom Trottier: files are all bits 00:45:52 Bill: Thanks Bob. Interesting.. 00:47:01 E O'Driscoll: Interesting idea Bob. I never thought of backing up to a drive on the same machine. 00:47:02 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: My presentations at Q&A from July 5, 2023 through July 26, 2023 show how to do versioning using FreeFile Sync 00:47:11 Tom Trottier: https://foxclone.org/ 00:47:23 Carol Pearson: Replying to "My presentations at ..." thx 00:47:44 Tom Trottier: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime 00:48:01 Tom Trottier: https://freefilesync.org/ 00:48:26 mikev: Reacted to "https://freefilesync..." with 👍 00:48:57 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: You can also use Windows' built-in File History which supports versioning and near-realtime-backup 00:49:07 Tom Trottier: Reacted to "You can also use Win..." with 😊 00:49:18 Bob Herres: Reacted to "My presentations at ..." with âĪïļ 00:49:35 Steve Parker: Will Foxclone backup a drive with FAT32, EXT4 and BTRFS partitions? 00:50:17 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Interesting idea Bob..." Keep in mind that this will not protect against something like an electrical problem that fries the whole shebang. Not to say this is a bad a pproach - just not complete 00:50:35 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Keep in mind that th..." with 👍 00:50:40 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Keep in mind that th..." with âĪïļ 00:51:26 Tom Trottier: There is "bitrot" - files written longer ago can drop bits. You should do a full disk backup every month or so. 00:52:36 France Picard Ottawa: Reacted to "Keep in mind that th..." with âĪïļ 00:57:58 Tom Trottier: "Wow foxclone did the work damn.. after so many times of cloning using multiple tools dd, clonezilla, recuezilla, btrfs.clone none worked. I almost lost my hope bcz i was doing so much cloning that my disk will die. But yay it worked finally after 4days of trial and error" -- https://www.linux.org/threads/cloning-btrfs-disk-fails-and-leads-to-grub-rescue.45665/ 00:58:52 Tom Trottier: So it looks like BTRFS can be cloned via Foxclone 00:59:52 Stew Bruce: I meant to ask, what is BTRFS? Do not recall that particular abbreviation.... 01:00:07 Tom Trottier: FWIW, BTRFS is a journaling FIle System similar to NTFS. 01:00:38 Stew Bruce: Replying to "FWIW, BTRFS is a jou..." Thx 01:02:09 Tom Trottier: Replying to "FWIW, BTRFS is a jou..." Wikipedia - Btrfs (pronounced as "better F S",[9] "butter F S",[13][14] "b-tree F S",[14] or B.T.R.F.S.) is a computer storage format that combines a file system based on the copy-on-write (COW) principle with a logical volume manager (distinct from Linux's LVM), developed together. It was created by Chris Mason in 2007[15] for use in Linux, and since November 2013, the file system's on-disk format has been declared stable in the Linux kernel.[16] Btrfs is intended to address the lack of pooling, snapshots, integrity checking, data scrubbing, and integral multi-device spanning in Linux file systems.[9] 01:04:04 Harvey Hope: Replying to "FWIW, BTRFS is a jou..." Interesting article: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/Btrfs 01:04:40 Steve Parker: Will Clonezilla clone a BTRFS drive to a USB drive and make it bootable? 01:04:43 Bob Herres: FTP is file Transfer Protocol 01:08:03 Natalie: If you have dual drive (SSD & HDD), can you do one image backup to include both? If so, is that better than doing each separately? 01:08:48 Jeff Dubois: The only time I ever had to backup was a consequence of hardware failure. I have always been a fan of data backup and reinstall all operating systems and software "fresh" and import the data back in. I've always wondered if you have unnecessary registry items or malware squirreled away somewhere if you're just no importing all the stuff back. Just a different strategy but it is often a bit more work. 01:10:19 Natalie: Thanks for the suggestion. 01:10:22 Tom Trottier: Replying to "FWIW, BTRFS is a jou..." Also, is Linux/bsd/unix 01:10:27 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: My presentations at Q&A from July 5, 2023 through July 26, 2023 show how to do versioning using FreeFile Sync 01:13:17 Tom Trottier: Google Drive is 15GB each, but include photos, except from original Pixel & Pixel XL 01:13:18 Ma Vo: if you image the file of a disk that is 512GB, and when the unfortunate event of disk failure you can only obtain a 1TB drive, can you still restore the image on a different size drive? 01:13:22 Coreen: On the Cloud, what is their DRP for users? 01:13:35 Tom Trottier: You can pay for more Google Drive storage 01:14:09 Stew Bruce: Replying to "if you image the fil..." Yes 01:14:28 Ma Vo: Reacted to "Yes" with 👍 01:17:17 Tom Trottier: You can also compress your in-use disks! Can be faster with a fast CPU 01:17:54 Coreen: what about tariffs 01:18:04 mikev: Reacted to "what about tariffs" with 😂 01:18:19 Tom Trottier: https://www.backblaze.com/ 01:18:54 Stew Bruce: Replying to "what about tariffs" Is that a Dog breed? 01:19:22 Coreen: Thanks everyone! 01:19:39 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "if you image the fil..." Yes, you can 01:19:44 Tom Trottier: Going to Japan - free 500MB eSIM 01:19:46 Tom Trottier: https://forums.redflagdeals.com/airalo-free-japan-welcome-esim-500mb-3-days-roaming-2748196/ 01:19:56 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Free options for imaging article https://opcug.ca/Reviews/BackupPrograms.htm 01:20:00 Gail Eagen (OPCUG Secretary): Thank you! 01:20:33 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG Post Q and A Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/OPCUGPostQandAJitsi 01:20:36 Carol Pearson: Thanks all 01:20:40 Alpha gamma: Thank you! 01:20:50 E O'Driscoll: Always an interesting evening! Thanks all. âĪïļ 01:21:00 Allison: Thank you! 01:21:05 Timothy: thanks everyone. 01:21:31 Rosemary: Thanks for great presentations.