These days, our livelihoods and businesses depend on internet access. I’ve noticed a rash of inaccessible web and mail servers in the last few weeks, my own among them. (I was lucky, though: fileslinger.com was only down for about an hour, and that’s the first time in more than a year.) A client’s website was down for three days over Thanksgiving weekend because her site is hosted on a server at a … [Read more...]

There’s a poll on the home page of the FileSlinger™ Backup Blog (top of the right column) which asks “When was the last time you backed up your computer?” The possible answers are:Within the last weekWithin the last monthWithin the last yearI’m supposed to back up my computer?Of the 38 people who voted, 23, or 60.5%, say they’ve backed up within the last week. (They must be paying attention to the … [Read more...]

Yesterday the Ur-Guru and I drove down to San Jose to speak to a group of high school students about backups at the National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology. (Well, I spoke; the Ur-Guru played Vanna White for me and wrote things on the flip chart.) NYLF/Tech gathers 1200 bright students from around the country and puts them through an intensive week of seminars and site visits. What I’m doing … [Read more...]