Yesterday the Ur-Guru pointed me to a post on Coding Horror entitled “International Backup Awareness Day.” Coding Horror is normally a blog, and the permalinks to posts don’t normally look like the one I just pasted in there. Depending on when you read this, clicking on that link might get you a “404: Page Not Found” error. Thanks to catastrophic data loss, Coding Horror is only pretending to be a … [Read more...]
Backing Up Firefox
A couple of weeks ago, the Ur-Guru helped me reinstall my main computer, Enheduanna. (Alas, I can’t blame the hiatus in backup reminders on that, but I do have to admit that this tour-guide business leaves me a lot less time for blogging.) One of the things he pointed out in the course of installing software was that I could save myself time on the next reinstall if I backed up my complete Firefox … [Read more...]
Backup News Roundup
While I’ve got a couple of guest posts promised (both on Mac backups), nothing has yet materialized, so I thought I’d take a closer look at some of the backup news that’s come up in the past week. I bookmark all those stories I find in Google Alerts or hear about from other sources, but I don’t always go back and investigate them further. If you’re a non-WordPress blogger (heresy!), you’ll want … [Read more...]
Plugins Podcast Addresses WP-DB-Backup
Episode 8 of Plugins: the WordPress Plugins Podcast focuses on the WP-DB-Backup plugin I mentioned in the Backup Reminder for January 30th. Angelo Mandato mentions a few backup tips I left out—but doesn't seem to know about the WordPress Backup plugin from BTE. … [Read more...]
Better Backups for WordPress
As I said a few months ago when I moved the Backup Blog from Blogger to WordPress, one of the things I like about WordPress is the ease with which you can back up your blog posts. For some years now, I’ve been using a plugin called WP-DB-Backup to back up my WordPress databases into compressed XML files and e-mail them to me. I then download the backup files to my hard drive, where they get backed … [Read more...]
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