I started up TweetDeck this morning to find that Mitch Haile (@bwahacker), Dennis Klein (@klein2), and Stefan Didak (@stefandidak), three hard-core home-office builders, were deep in a discussion of backups. To provide a little back story, there’s some dispute as to whether Mitch or Stefan has the most famous home office on the web. Dennis probably has the office with the highest frequency of … [Read more...]
Evidence from Sun: Yelling at Hard Drives is Bad for Them
Hard Drive Failure Brings Down Podcast Network
That announcement leapt out at me from my Podcasting News feed today. (If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know I’m a podcast junkie.) The Podcast Network is an Australian venture, one I confess I hadn’t heard of despite knowing some Australian podcasters. Like many start-ups, particularly the self-funded ones, they ran into a problem of scale: Unfortunately, we … [Read more...]
Sounds You Never Want to Hear: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 09-21-07
Long-time readers will remember that it was just over a year ago that Seagate kindly sent me a Maxtor Shared Storage II network drive, which I gleefully installed and which has been performing faithfully ever since. Just a few days ago I had set it up as a print server, seeing no need to have a separate print server when this would work as well. Unfortunately, my printer (an Epson Stylus Photo … [Read more...]
Shaking Up Your Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 07-20-07
The earthquake at much-too-early-AM today reminded me that it really might be a better idea to sleep with the computer under the bed than on top of it. On the other hand, I’d probably give myself a hernia reaching for it every morning, and the ceiling is the only thing that can actually fall on it where it is. And if that happens, I might not be around to worry about my data. (Yes, I sleep with my … [Read more...]
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