This is the post I was planning to write last week, your annual reminder that you need to archive your data at the end of each year. (If your fiscal year is different from the calendar year, you should create these archives then.) I've written about year-end backups on several occasions before. Because (as I pointed out in December 2005) these aren't really backups, I'm going to stop talking about … [Read more...]
Backups Are Del.icio.us: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 01-04-08
I had a different post in mind for starting off the New Year, but that one is going to have to wait until next week, because I'm sick enough to have very limited brain function at the moment. For those of you not familiar with it, del.icio.us is a social bookmarking service. That means that instead of creating bookmarks (a.k.a. favorites for those of you using Internet Exploder) that live in … [Read more...]
How do YOU Back up Your Computer? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-28-07
Here it is the end of another year of backups—almost time to make those special year-end copies of your important data to store with your tax records. I thought I’d do something a bit different for today’s column, so I put a question out to my LinkedIn network asking the people I know what they do for backups. (And no, this is not what “networked backups” means.) Most of the answers came as … [Read more...]
I Can Has Backup? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-07-07
You know what they say about bloggers: all we write about is our cats. This cat actually belongs to my housemate, but she's fond of sitting on my wrists while I type—which is what she's doing right now. Just in case you were wondering, cat hair is not good for your computer. I first discovered "lolcats" about six months ago, via the online postcard service Delivr.net. If you want to waste a few … [Read more...]
Free Chapter from O’Reilly Backup Book
SearchStorage.com (which gave this blog an award last year, to my considerable surprise) is offering a free chapter from W. Curtis Preston's book Backup and Recovery, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.Though the book is aimed at IT pros working in large organizations, the basic steps Preston covers in Chapter 24 (“It's All About Data Protection”) apply to small businesses as well. For … [Read more...]
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