Have a Disaster Recovery Plan in place!

Original Content | 09/09/2023 | by Laz A, Mataz

[Lazamataz]

A word to the wise. I was not wise and I am suffering because of it.

[BenLurkin]

Did Starfield do this to your PC?

[Lazamataz]

No sir. It was my shortsightedness in not having a solid disaster recovery plan, and a one-off bad luck event.

[occamrzr06]

The first rule of Preppers club is we don’t talk about preppers club.

Oh, wait, different disaster. My bad, carry on.

[Rural_Michigan]

All this crap is to the point of making our lives more difficult and complicated than easier. I miss the simple, non commercialized internet of the 90s.now I have to change my password every 6 months and can’t use certain characters and two different authentication methods minimum. Spit.

[Lazamataz]

I won’t be on FascistBook for a while until I straighten all this out.

[Bob434]

Number 3... get a cheap phone, and a voip number for about $5 a year and associate websites with that number I stead of personal,phone number... but note, not all website forms allow voip

Also, for email address required for website logins, I use a throeaway account like mailinator.com - a temp email site where you pick whatever name you wish, go to the site and type in the name, and get the mail- it deletes mail after a day or so.

[Nifster]

Tough situation

Good advice

[Lazamataz]

All this crap is to the point of making our lives more difficult and complicated than easier. I miss the simple, non commercialized internet of the 90s.now I have to change my password every 6 months and can’t use certain characters and two different authentication methods minimum. Spit.

Yeah, and sometimes the authentication method of using your phone is counterintuitive.... like when I lost my phone and had to order a new one... but couldn't get into my carrier account because I had phone verification. Derp.

There is also a trend to insist that (for example on Yahoo) that you have to verify with EVERY recovery email account. I had two out of three account passwords in a document, but since I didn't have the third, screw off buster.

Originally I only needed to prove ONE recovery account.

[dforest]

I just got a new windows 11 computer. I have never been harassed this much over logins, passwords pop up sales pitches that screw up and lock me out. I hate them. They make you sign in over and over and then tell you your password isn’t found. I even had it written down. Luckily I have a backup hard drive.

The hackers are better than microsoft.

I may go back to my old windows 8.5 laptop.

[redcatcherb412]

Linux!!

[glorgau]

When it comes to regular backups, remember Jesus Saves.

[dforest]

Is that a recommendation?

[dfwgator]

When it comes to regular backups, remember Jesus Saves.

Esposito scores on the rebound.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, Windows 11 takes extra-special care to make logins ridiculously difficult if you lose a pin and password.

[GaltAdonis]

Try one of these -

Russian abacus - the 'Schoty'.

Good Luck!

[ansel12]

I bought a used W11 computer a few months ago and it seems barely different from W10, I set it to skip sign-in and haven’t seen any pop-ups, ads, sign-in notices, or such.

Have you looked into the settings and googled some solutions and conveniences?

[joma89]

I hesitated to connect backup recovery methods like a phone number to my email but eventually realized it was necessary.

Thanks for advising everyone of this need.

[Afterguard]

“I ended up reinstalling windows”

Well, there’s yer problem Laz. If ya had a Mac ya could just reset to factory default, put in a new password, and recovered yer files from iCloud. Eazy peazy.

(I’ve actually been there and scary as it was the Mac did make th process pretty straightforward.)

[dforest]

Thanks, I thought I had done that. This is so annoying.