How to browse old Windows backups?
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I have several old backups made using Windows backup that I have a need to go through in order to locate some old audio files that I thought I had always migrated to my current PC..
Honestly, I have a very bad feeling that the data is flat gone. But there is always the small chance that it is in one of these backups.
One is a Windows 7 backup to a NAS. the other (which I cannot find now but I swear I seen a few weeks ago) was made with Windows XP long long ago.Anyone know a backup browser tool that will read them? Without reinstalling Windows 7 someplace?
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The Windows 7 backup looks like a VHD file? I tried to mount it directly but received an error. I'll tinker with that more later.. I really want the XP backup I think so I am trying to find it on the NAS again.
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Do you have a Win2008 R2 machine available? I haven't tried it, but it an 7 are on a similar platform.
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I do, but the problem now is that I cannot locate the Windows XP backup that I know I had. If this is gone, then I have lost a lot of information from 1997-2007.
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We can't help you much if you can't find the backup.
Hopefully you can find it. That is a lot of time.
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We can't help you much if you can't find the backup.
Hopefully you can find it. That is a lot of time.
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There was more stuff, but most of what I am trying to locate is the text chat logs for the D&D Campaign I ran from 1999 to 2006. I have recently begun writing up a new campaign and was wanting to refer to events that happened in that campaign. I have copies of voice logs, but not the text.
See, I started this old campaign in 1999 online via program called WebRPG. It included a couple old friends and a various random people that seen the game in the listed and wanted to play. I chose WebRPG because my friends and I were unable to meet in person often enough to really enjoy a game. WebRPG was a virtual tabletop (VTT) / chatroom and was a wondrous thing. The WebRPG went to a pay model and we changed VTT programs and kept on playing. Years later I hosted my own TeamSpeak Server and we used that in conjunction with the the VTT.
I have found the voice logs unexpectedly in my iTunes library, but I am still missing all the chat logs. The WayBack machine has a few of them but not all of them because for a long time I was running an Invision Power Board forum on my domain and the logs were in posts there. Those were not able to be indexed. I had copies of everything in folders on my old Sony Vaio laptop and I had made Windows backups of it. So it is now a matter of finding those old backups. I had thought they were on my NAS, but I cannot find it.
I am a sad Jared at the moment.
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Oh that sucks.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh that sucks.
Hopes up! then dashed when the page loaded.. no links.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010424204621/http://www.daerma.com/chatlogs/chatlog2000.html -
Oh! 2001 is there! /cries with joy
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Yeah I was going to respond a few minutes ago but got called away for a printer issue. That sucks about 1999 & 2000 though.
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The game ran consistently until mid 2006 though. So I am still missing a lot. but beginning January 2005 and then a few sessions in late 2007 into January 2008 I have voice logs. compressed to really crappy quality MP3 because well it was 2005 and the Midwest broadband wasn't really. The MP3 range from 3 MB to 43 MB.
Have 28 mp3 files with game sessions.
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You guys ran for 7 years? That's better than any P&P game I've played. Was it your longest or have you gone longer? I'm interested because I have played but still a noob who ends up with people who just leave and the game never works out for too long.
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I had many players come anf go over those years, but the at least 2 of the core 4 were always around.
and I found that I setup the forums in late 2004 so that would be when I stopped posting raw HTML. Instead I attached the logs to a forum post that was in a non-public forum..
https://web.archive.org/web/20050226024836/http://www.daerma.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4 -
@J1MM3RT In addition, we had special sessions at GenCon each year. About 8-12 of us crammed into one hotel room gaming from 6pm till we pass out.
Each night of GenCon we would do a different campaign that we played in sometimes separately sometimes together throughout the year.
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuu
https://web.archive.org/web/20050319043401/http://www.daerma.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61
A forum post with a link that way back doesn't have
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hahah forgot about this... I used to run a webcame that sent FTP upload every 60 seconds to my web host. Couple times over the years my players wondered why I stopped responding mid game and they checked the cam to see my face on the keyboard...
![image]/jpg](http://i.imgur.com/2MwqTWL.jpg)
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@JaredBusch I noticed the link you gave, gives me more links to 2001 to 2005, you probably already saw that though. The last post about the cam though made me lol, I remember many times that happening to me or friends just playing games, especially chatting and screaming into the mics to wake them up. You aren't a true gamer, (video, tabletop, or P&P), unless you gamed till you passed out. So far I've done it with Arkham Horror, Rifts P&P, & the more recent video game was final fantasy VI where I passed out during a fight.
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@J1MM3RT yeah, I spent all evening downloading all the logs that the web archive had. Still missing so much, but very happy to have at least this much back.
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This gives you an opportunity to try to fill in the blanks, like the reboots they do with games & movies, only with better results.
