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  • It’s World Backup Day, are you backing up?

    It’s World Backup Day, are you backing up?

    It’s World Backup Day today, and every March 31st. The idea is to remind people to back up their stuff, because it’s horrible to loose your precious data.

    People don’t backup their data because it’s hard. Companies like Apple are trying to solve that with automatic backups to their respective cloud services, and that’s great. It’s gotten a lot easier to backup photos in particular over the years.

    I have several layers of backups.

    • All iOS devices backup to iCloud.
    • I have a Time Capsule in the office that backups up my Macs whenever they’re there.
    • I also have a Time Capsule at home, doing the same thing. Redundancy!
    • Most workfiles live in Dropbox and/or iCloud Drive. That means that they sync and that I get version control over them. It’s not a backup per se, but it’s an extra layer of protection.
    • My Macs all backup off-site using BackBlaze (use my referral link if you want to give it a go, that’ll get me free months).
    • I have a FTP server where I upload all my photos on a monthly basis, just in case.

    Despite all this, I still feel I should be doing more about backup. My mobile devices in particular feel vulnerable, because although iCloud restores (and synchronisation) have yet to fail me, it’s often the only layer of backup safety I have there. I’m looking to get a wifi disk and a couple of those Lightning USB sticks to do sanity backups.

    Also, it’s worth repeating that synchronisation is not a backup. If you have all your files in Dropbox and someone gets access to them, deletes them, then they’re gone. The 30 day versioning feature makes it possible to restore lost files within Dropbox, but that only helps if you know that you’ve lost a file. Synchronisation services such as Dropbox are great, but they are not backups.

    Backup. Even Ray Spass does it.

  • I always backup

    In the words of Ray Spass, one half of the leading characters in Grant Morrison’s comic Annihilator (this from issue #4, I think):

    I always backup

    I’m actually enjoying Annihilator thus far. It’s a bit much at time, desperately trying, but I still look forward to the next issue, so it must be good. Check it out here, and then make sure you backup before you clock out for the Holidays.

  • Backup, Backup, Backup

    I can’t state this enough: Backup your work, writers.

    Backup. Your. Work.

    Those of you who haven’t lost precious work due to hard drive failure, theft, or similar data loss, often have a hard time grasping the seriousness of the situation. But when you sit there, realizing that all your hard work is gone forever, then you know true despair.

    Everyone should keep backups, and writers should keep more than most. There is no excuse, it is so easy. Not only can you use typical backup solutions like an external drive or a Time Machine, you can easily add additional layers of protection. Syncing to the cloud is obvious, sign up for Dropbox or similar this instance if you haven’t already.

    I also keep a backup email account which get a copy of the day’s writing. Make it a habit to email your backup email account every day and you know you won’t loose more than a day’s work at least. Your backup email account need to be with a different provider than your primary one, of course.

    Text doesn’t take much room. Back it up everywhere, keep an USB drive handy, backup to your FTP server. Whatever.

    Just backup.

  • Ny attack mot svenska sidor

    En ny attack, till synes från samma grupp som förra gången, skedde tydligen i helgen. Webcows är drabbade, tydligen främst DNS-tjänsten. Webbhotellets sajt är uppe men deras driftinformationssida kan inte nås så helt friskt verkar det inte. (more…)

  • En veckas semester stundar

    Ah, vila lite!Jag gör mig i detta nu redo för att ge mig av på en veckas semester. Eller ge mig av är fel ord, men kontorsdörren kommer stängas och jag kommer röra mig mellan hemmet, Österlen och några andra platser. Jobb blir det definitivt inte, däremot skall jag skriva en hel del men mer om det någon annan gång. Jag vet inte om jag ämnar uppdatera den här bloggen under den kommande veckan eller ej, det återstår att se. Lägre tempo blir det garanterat, men det är möjligt att det blir totalt stiltje också.

    Lite läsning medan jag är borta:

    Nu återstår bara att ta backuper på allt möjligt – det borde säkert du göra också! Hårddiskkrascher och borttappad data är synnerligen irriterande…