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Richard never answered the question about the keys: are they legitimate or not … if not, HOW DO THEY EXIST?  Did the sellers figure out how to counterfeit them?

If they are legit, *why* are they so cheap?  He offered, and struck down, one explanation.

All in all, this article should have had editing to ensure the author answered his own, and the obvious, questions.

 

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alQamar

Hi,

I developed a program, zoomback, that lets you bulk load virtual backgrounds into Zoom.

This can be very useful when you’re looking at trying out dozens of backgrounds!

It also can display information about your Zoom database … including your call history.  (Note: call history is tracked for you only if you have done recording withing the call, sadly.  I’ve asked Zoom to change that…no response!)

The program is available, free, for Windows, Mac, and Linux (at least, 64-bit openSUSE).

It makes a backup copy of your Zoom database before touching it the first time, just in case.

It must, however, be run from the “command line” (Windows: shell  or command.exe; Mac: Terminal).

It’s at http://www.sieler.com/zoomback

Stan

Re: “At a glance, it’s apparent that large, whole-system data sets will be problematic […] but two-plus days to restore a system with a few hundred gigabytes of data is probably unacceptable.”

That’s why BackBlaze offers, at a reasonable cost, the option of sending you a disk drive with your data on it.

I’m disappointed a “best effort” wasn’t made for the local ethernet backup … 100 Mbps is something I stopped using years ago (along with USB 2.0 and ADSL :).
I’d be shocked to hear that your PC doesn’t have a gigabit ethernet. And, gigabit switches are $30 or so. Rrouters, cable modems, and WAPs are all available with gigabit ports, and have been.

Secondly, I wish you’d tried BackBlaze. They seem to be one of the few “good guys” out there … publishing the specs on their hardware, and making hard-won data available to users (e.g., failure rates on various hard drives). I’ve used them on my Mac: easy to install, quick backup, unobtrusive, easy to restore, and … support listens and talks to me!