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...]
Grading the F Drive: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 08-03-07
I haven't had a chance to check out ION Backup yet, but I did manage to investigate my new FreeAgent Go drive further, and to copy the data from the dying X drive onto the new F drive. (Designating it F, for "FreeAgent," seemed obvious, particularly since that was the default letter Windows assigned to it.) One thing I discovered in the course of checking out Seagate's drive management interface … [Read more...]
Is Your Data Leopard-Proof? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 07-27-07
Sometimes things converge. Then they usually fall on your head. So far this week’s convergence has not resulted in any injuries, but it may provide my readers some amusement and even be of some use.The first thing that happened was that I got 1) a blog comment and 2) a couple of e-mails from Nic Darling, “the marketing guy” at UniversePoint, the company that makes ION™ Monitored Backup, which I’ll … [Read more...]
No One Is Spared: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 07-06-07
In response to my sulk last week about my dying disk drive, one Mac-using friend wrote:Luckily for me I'm just a humble user now--and I've got a Mac. When I had a similar looking problem some time back it was quickly fixed the next day by a tech at the Mac Genius Bar. A firmware problem; remedied on start-up from the keyboard.Signed:Gloating in BerkeleyOf course, anyone who’s been reading long … [Read more...]
The Backup Sulks: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 06-29-07
I have at least half a dozen possible backup topics sitting in my “Backup Info” Outlook folder, from an ill-considered attempt to enact a law requiring backups of RAM to the role backup tapes play in litigation to Chris Pirillo’s video about backing up onto your home network, not to mention Samsung’s hybrid drive, a drive bay called Drobo, and a software product called DriveClone. (I managed to … [Read more...]
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