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Back Up Your Code

March 5, 2011 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Last week Ivan Misner asked me to add some features to the BNI Podcast website, namely the Digg Digg  and the Translate This Button plugins. Installing plugins is a simple enough task, as anyone who works with WordPress knows. Configuring them, however, can take some time. I determined that a horizontal layout was best for the Digg Digg sharing buttons given the fact that they showed up right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Practices Tagged With: reminder, WordPress

New Computer = New Backups

July 13, 2010 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

At the beginning of June, I got a new computer. It was high time: Enna is more than four years old now, and she’s pretty sluggish, and Windows XP is getting just a tiny bit outdated, though I preferred it to Vista. The new machine is a thing of beauty: a 17.3” ASUS G72GX with 6 GB RAM and a bunch of other drool-inspiring specs, plus flash gamer details like a backlit keyboard (the Ur-Guru … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Practices, Backup Software Tagged With: Acronis, ASUS G72GX, Karen's Replicator, SyncBack Freeware, Windows 7 Backup

Too Late to Back Up?

May 22, 2010 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Last week I got a call from someone whose name I won’t reveal but whose story should be a lesson to everyone reading this. The person in question is someone who uses her laptop continually, but doesn’t know that much about it. “My computer went black,” she said. “Totally black?” I asked. “No, it has white letters on it. It says ‘Operating system not found.’” “Oh,” I said intelligently. “That’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Practices Tagged With: Memtest86, Rebit, reminder, Vista memory diagnostics tool

Crikey, It’s 2010—Time for the Annual Archive Again

January 12, 2010 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Just occasionally, I think I might have been writing this blog for too long. Only very occasionally, because it won’t be “too long” until everyone backs up, the technology to do so is completely mature, and no one needs to hear about the subject any more. But the end of one year, and the beginning of another, is one of those times. How many ways are there to say “Okay, make a copy of all your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Archiving, Backup Practices Tagged With: annual archive, year-end backup

Back Up, or Purge? A Question Worth Asking

December 1, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

After last week’s meditation on using external hard drives instead of DVDs to back up photos, Loyal Reader Mike Van Horn responded with the following e-mail: My advice to you is, “Purge!” I look at my own backups of photos, and what I see is lots of garbage (at 1 to 2 meg each). Many duplicates of the same photo. Gobs of photos of people or things I never need to view again. Photos of all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Practices Tagged With: deduplication, Mike Van Horn, photo backups

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