Fences 2 Backup & Restore

Replacing Master Drive

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Hi,  

I am running Fences 2.  My master drive is going bad and Dell is replacing it in the next few days.  I took a snapshot of Fences hoping to restore from it.  It is not saving it with the name I am specifying but there is a "new" file with the correct date and time stamp sitting in the User/ . . . . /Fences/Backups folder.  This folder is on the drive being replaced.  What steps do I need to take to ensure that when i reinstall Fences to the new drive the snapshot will be available to restore from?

Thanks,

Ken

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top


Hi,  

I am running Fences 2.  My master drive is going bad and Dell is replacing it in the next few days.  I took a snapshot of Fences hoping to restore from it.  It is not saving it with the name I am specifying but there is a "new" file with the correct date and time stamp sitting in the User/ . . . . /Fences/Backups folder.  This folder is on the drive being replaced.  What steps do I need to take to ensure that when i reinstall Fences to the new drive the snapshot will be available to restore from?

Thanks,
Ken 
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Fences wont recreate the icons that are on your current desktop onto any new PC it is installed on - the icons would need to exist on that desktop as well for any restored snapshot to put them into Fences.

For more on restoring snapshots, please see:
https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

To be safe you should make another backup saved to an external device 

i.e. external drive , thumb drive , cloud etc.

And another thought with the new hard drive Fences 2 should work for it

but it requires a newer version of Fences to 3 you can get an upgrade price for that

let us know if all goes well.

 


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