Back-up, back-up and back-up

Sorry to hear this sad news Jaap.

Yes, backup is essential, I use an external HD from Lacie, I also back up on spare HD's and old working PC's.

I presume your work that is on your page can still be downloaded and backed up.

Je suis triste pour toi, cher Jaap ! J'espère que ça va s'arranger, my friend...

That is really bad news, Jaap. I hope, that you will be able to recover at least some of your data. I backup daily on an external HD (disconnect after backup! !) with Personal Backup, a very well maintained freeware from the University of Kiel. All commercial products I tried were inferior or grossly unreliable or encrypted the data meaning you always need that SW to recover the data. In addition I backup the image of my installation with Macrium Reflect. Gdata IS protects my system against attacks (hopefully). So far I did not have any problems, but that locker is really a nasty thing. We all have to watch out here. Thanks for the heads up and greets, Lutz

Thank you so much Lutz. Now I'm trying to recover/renew documents and pics (from Ipernity, Flickr, Blurb). Do you have a link to that 'Personal Backup'

personal-backup.rathlev-home.de/index-e.html

Good luck

Thank you Lutz.
Installed the program, but don't understand enough of what/how to use it.

... admittedly the prgram is a bit confusing at first sight. This is mainly because of all the options you may or may not use. There ist a fairly good Help file on the homepage, which guides you through the process. And you can always immediately see, what you have backed uop, since the files are not encrypted.

Is there a possibility to do the back-up by your own or is it always automatically ??

... you can do it manually of course, but first you have to define, what to back up. You do that on the large panel on the left. Go to New (top left) and follow the assistant. When you finished the setup just click on strat in the left panel top right und your backup starts. Don't worry about the right panel!

Good luck and let me know ...

Tried and failed again.
Lost (almost) all my files again by using this program.

...sorry to hear that Jaap, however, the program does not any delete files. But if you feel uncomfortable with the program, you should find something else. I use this program now for more than three years and never had any trouble. I just wanted to help ...

Greets Lutz

I appreciate your help Lutz, but it looks if it doesn't work for me.
For the time being I back up my files manual.

Oh that is so bad. Sorry to hear about you attack and the loss of you photos and documents. Did you open an email from an unknown person to you ?????????????? I never open emails that I do know the sender. Rather ignore the email of unknowns rather than risk an attack. Best wishes Jaap Regards Tess

No Tess it looked like an email from a very well known company (my Internet provider). I opened an attachment and then the virus started to encrypt documents and pictures.

So very sad! I'm very sorry for you; can only imagine how angry you are. If it's any help to you, I back-up with Carbonite. It's a well-respected and trustworthy company. They do a great job. Also, I know you recognized the sender, but I delete every email I do not recognize and then delete by deletes on a regular basis. Not foolproof, but it helps. Again, so very sorry!! Kathleen

I never open unexpected mails even if they appear to come from a friend or family member. As I use Web mail all emails remain on a server unopened until I have checked with those stated as authors, I often get mails from my cousins husband with weird subject lines so I ring him and ask, he told me he has a trojan that sends mails on a regular basis and it cannot be removed totally without formatting and re installing everything.

Erg om dat te horen Jaap. Veel succes in het weer op orde krijgen van je computer en het terugkrijgen van al je beeldmateriaal

Ko

Ähnliches vor vielen Jahren erlebt.
Seitdem gebe ich Geld für den Virenschutz (Norton) aus, Backup ist Standard und Fotodateien ziehe ich erst auf eine externe HD.
Hoffe, Du hast nicht alle Daten verloren.
Viele Grüße, Uwe

There is another very good reason, to make daily backups. Your hard disk will definitely fail one day, and mostly as a total surprise without any warning, unless you analyze the SMART data on a daily basis, and even then you cannot be sure.

Sorry to hear about your bad news Jaap but thanks for posting this warning.

Je suis navré pour toi. C'est comme un pan de vie qui disparaît lorsque l'on perd tous ses enregistrements informatiques.
J'ai connu un problème similaire lorsque mon ordinateur a rendu l'âme, il y a deux ans. Il faut absolument avoir un disque dur d'appoint pour effectuer des sauvegardes régulières.

What back up do you suggest, please enlighten

I use a 'simple' external disk to which I regularly copy my (new/adapted) files. Pictures immediately after uploading new pictures on my PC and other files often once a week.

Be aware to only connect the external disk to the PC when you are using it, otherwise malware still can infect the external disk.

Grateful thanks for the reply