Stanley, I thought that was the more likely explanation, but routers do go off at times due to loss of power supply to the house. We used to have that frequently when we lived in the village but fortunately bot enough breaks in quick succession to freak out the router. The ISPs tend to warn people about not switching off their router because there are some folk out there who, at first, think they should switch it off when they go on holiday or even when they go shopping! (Remember when some used to never pull plugs out of mains sockets because they thought the electricity would escape?)
Gloria wrote: ↑20 Mar 2019, 18:02
Far too complicated to get my ageing brain around, I will now leave it alone. Thank you all for your help, this is what I love about this site.
My brain wouldn't cope with what you've been faced with, Gloria, and I agree, this is what's so good about OGFB. Wasn't it you who first introduced me to OG when we were both using the Cemsearch family history site many moons ago?
Pluggy. I've found an odd discrepancy between my two computers. It's not a significant problem but I don't understand why it occurs. I reported how I've found that on the new PC I can quickly make a zip archive of my backup files and transfer that file easily to the external hard disk. It takes about 9 minutes to make a 9.3 GB zip archive from 11.5 GB of files/folders and 1 minute to transfer to the disk. But when I tried to do exactly the same on the old PC, creation of the archive was very slow and I had to cancel it after an hour. I tried making a .tar.gz compressed archive and had the same problem. Then I tried a .tar uncompressed archive and it created the 15GB archive in 18 minutes and took 6 minutes to transfer to the external disk. I don't know why the new PC will make a compressed archive quickly but the old PC doesn't like doing it. Any ideas? It's not a hassle, I can make the .tar archives OK on the old one but I'm just curious.