These are my links for May 8th through May 10th: How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox | WordPress News at WPMU.org - WordPress › WordPress Backup to Dropbox « WordPress Plugins - Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-Portable Drive (500GB) Review & Rating | PCMag.com - … [Read more...]
Goodbye, Zoogmo: Just How Viable Is Social Backup, Anyway?
I wrote about “social backup” provider Zoogmo back in 2007. At that time, they summed up their service as follows: “With Zoogmo you get FREE unlimited backup that automatically runs in the background and lets you protect your data at multiple remote locations that YOU choose.” I wondered then about their business model. It now seems possible they didn’t have one, because I just received the … [Read more...]
Saved by the Box
When I posted on LinkedIn that I was looking for subjects for this week’s Backup Reminder, David Battino pointed me to a blog post over on O’Reilly Digital Media. The post dates back to January of this year and recounts the hard drive failure the author, Darwin Grosse, suffered at Christmas—whereupon he discovered his most recent backup was four months old. Ouch. Since that time, Darwin … [Read more...]