How could anyone fail to read an article entitled “Five Signs that You Are Headed for a Backup Disaster”? Like most of TechTarget's material, this piece focuses on enterprise backup, but it's still worth reading—in particular, I'd say, the point about keeping your offsite backups up to date. And speaking of getting your backups offsite, there's also a special report about online backup. This … [Read more...]
Backing Up Social Networks, Part 1: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 03-21-08
I've been using del.icio.us profligately in the last six months or so. It's a handy way to keep track of things I want to read, and things I want other people to read. But it suddenly occurred to me yesterday that whereas my Firefox bookmarks get backed up along with the rest of my critical data thanks to Karen’s Replicator, I had no backup of my del.icio.us bookmarks. It turns out that it's just … [Read more...]
Are You Paranoid Enough? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 03-07-08
Now and again I talk about aspects of data security that aren't directly related to backups. I don't do it often, because I'm not a security expert, but there's more than one way to lose your data, and stories about backup tapes stolen from financial institutions and missing laptops with confidential information on them show up in the news pretty often. The security of your backups can be an … [Read more...]
Backing Up to…Paper? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 01-25-08
After last week’s discussion about the relative merits of paper and electronic storage for text and photos, I was particularly intrigued to come across a blog post about paper as a backup medium. Someone has actually gone and invented a program that will back your data up in the form of zillions of squares of tiny black dots (90,000 per square inch of paper at 300 DPI). You can get all of about 5 … [Read more...]
Upgrading Your Archives: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 01-18-08
After last week's column about creating annual archives, one Loyal Reader wrote in with the following question: Old codgers have old archives on old disks. I have disks and files going back into the 1980s. I have no computer that can read these disks. (Anyone have an operational Mac Classic that can read 256k disks?) But even files from the late 90s sometimes come up with a "This file is … [Read more...]
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