A few weeks ago, one of my Faithful Readers wrote to say:I'm pretty rigorous about backing up, but I just discovered that our web pages don't get backed up. We accidentally deleted several pages while editing our website, so I asked the question, ‘How is our website backed up?’ The answer: ‘Duh-h-h-h, don't know.’ Our web hosts informed us they don't back up our pages. So we're having to … [Read more...]

Neville Hobson (of "For Immediate Release" fame) has just posted a reminder to TypePad users to back up their blogs in preparation for some server maintenance Six Apart is performing.Neville's post includes directions and a few extra tips about the backup process.The truth is that it's always a good time to back up your blog, no matter what platform or host you use. … [Read more...]

I’ve got blogs on the brain this week. Yesterday Steven Van Yoder interviewed me for his Get Slightly Famous study about blogs as a tool to grow your business and bring traffic to your website, so I got to tell him about the genesis of the FileSlinger™ Backup Blog. (I’ll post the MP3 file on the blog.) Not only that, I was setting up a new blog site for a client until late last night and had … [Read more...]

After a total meltdown that took them offline for five hours (a long time in the life of a blog), Blogcritics.org's Eric Olsen offers this warning:"HERE IS THE LESSON: anything of value on a computer - your home computer, work computer, laptop, servers that host your website, etc etc - must be backed up, ideally independently of the primary computer...It is YOUR responsibility to make sure this … [Read more...]

Dear FileSlinger clients, colleagues, and friends: As any of you who have lost data in the past year will know, the best present you can give yourselves this holiday season is frequent, regular backups, now and in the year to come. At this time of year, most of the Western world is thinking about lists. Lists of gifts to buy, lists of goals or resolutions for the New Year, lists of those to whom … [Read more...]