Yes, I'm two days late with this. Friday morning we were in Dunsmuir. It was raining so hard you couldn't even see Mount Shasta, the Ur-Guru was in an evil mood because of the weather, and we were facing a long drive across the mountains to Eureka to meet my long-lost cousin and his family. So I had just about time to back up the computer to my new Maxtor OneTouch Mini drive, and no time to write … [Read more...]
I Need a Backup Blogger: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 10-06-07
Okay, be honest: who forgot to back up last week? Anyone? That's the "Does anyone actually need me?" question. Because if you've all got your backups automated by now, does it matter whether I actually write this reminder? Do people even notice if I don't produce one? Not that I'm trying to let myself off the hook for not producing a post last week, mind you, but no one on my … [Read more...]
Testing the GParted Live CD: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 09-14-07
Last week I mentioned that I'd seen an intriguing post on Lifehacker entitled "Copy and Paste your Entire Hard Drive with Two Clicks with GParted." This sounded rather improbable to me, but I wanted to check it out. There was a small problem with doing so, because the link on the Lifehacker site is broken, but I figured out how to fix it and was able to go over to Sourceforge to download the … [Read more...]
The Shortest Post Since 2003: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 09-07-07
It's 4:20 PM and I've had some very long days this week, with more to follow next week. Somewhere in there I did manage to make a Ghost backup of my system, the first in a long time. (It's getting time—and past time—to do a hygienic reinstall of Enna, though I don't know whether I'll manage it before the Ur-Guru arrives next weekend.) Meanwhile, my five automated file backup systems continue to … [Read more...]
Zoogmo Follow-Up
Dov Sugarman from Zoogmo answered some of the questions I posed in Friday's writeup in his comment on the post, and also provided me some help with connecting to a backup partner and testing the backup and restore features. For the beta period, at least, there's a “dummy partner” set up to let people test the system. When I selected “MyZoogmo” as a backup partner, I got a dialog box asking me … [Read more...]
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