tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post3461791938918701024..comments2023-08-14T10:44:59.007-04:00Comments on Novel Spaces: Backup Everything. Yes, Even That.KeVin K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14792797517571690942noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-70344997362143497492014-10-22T13:46:19.214-04:002014-10-22T13:46:19.214-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032211113954453890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-87448785859060681422014-01-23T00:28:08.841-05:002014-01-23T00:28:08.841-05:00I have my share of horror stories, but I always ha...I have my share of horror stories, but I always had files backed up to at least a week or two before the gremlins struck. <br /><br />Toward the end of last year I had no laptop, was using a tablet then a borrowed Mac, and finally replaced my laptop in December. Everything I've been saving in various boxes, clouds and sticks seems to be in place...except the first half of a short story that I need to complete right about now. Can't find it anywhere--not even backed up to emails which I was doing regularly back then. I know I saved it somewhere, but those gremlins...Liane Spicerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05035607144500219524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-37393483470864609232014-01-19T21:22:43.288-05:002014-01-19T21:22:43.288-05:00Use google drive!!! The main thing is to follow th...Use google drive!!! The main thing is to follow the golden rule of "Baking up" you don't have a backup until there is 2 reliable copies of your files. Nice blog BTW Following! One A Day Techhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09676998239220528653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-19428015320956971432014-01-17T20:07:17.455-05:002014-01-17T20:07:17.455-05:00This has happened to me so often that I'm anal...This has happened to me so often that I'm anal about it. I use dropbox, which I really like, so that I have some kind of copy, and I keep a copy on my machine in a non-Internet file.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11552394655165533447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-89189040908745285292014-01-16T14:35:43.018-05:002014-01-16T14:35:43.018-05:00It always get you the one day you didn't back ...It always get you the one day you didn't back up. Good thing you were doing it all the time.Jewel Amethysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14813773386476356666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-78400357782584424902014-01-16T11:09:59.796-05:002014-01-16T11:09:59.796-05:00I use automation for full backups, but for daily s...I use automation for full backups, but for daily stuff I tend to "backup as I go," copying stuff off to a memory stick or whatever once I'm done working on it for the day. As I said in the article, it was just a slip-up in my routine, but it was just enough for the gremlims to sneak in and wreak a little havoc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-14941635484152958002014-01-16T10:52:38.083-05:002014-01-16T10:52:38.083-05:00There's a simple technique to avoid forgetting...There's a simple technique to avoid forgetting to back things up: <i>automation</i>. The computer can take the tedium away by doing what it does well – repetitive jobs. You can script you backups and then use scheduled tasks to run them.<br /><br />If you're worried about third-party snooping, as am I, then you can protect yourself against them. Wrap up your backups into a password-protected zip file, before transmitting the data to the cloud. This too can be automated. It's how I operate my backups regime.<br /><br />Finally, it's worth <b>testing your backups</b> to make sure you can restore when necessary. You wouldn't want to find that your backups didn't work (or contained the wrong data) <i>after</i> the disaster, would you.<br /><br />For further reading on this subject, you can view <a href="http://www.kevinmachin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Resources/CCT/cct_backups.htm" rel="nofollow">this article on my web site</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-4930736676779690992014-01-15T18:12:19.927-05:002014-01-15T18:12:19.927-05:00No personal horror stories to speak of. What littl...No personal horror stories to speak of. What little fresh work I do, I save it on the hard drive, the floppy drive it was created on, the flash drive to the old computer that it was written on and a copy to my other flash drive on my other computer.G. B. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09783331838434598963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-4329816112772562902014-01-15T08:47:05.570-05:002014-01-15T08:47:05.570-05:00I pretty much copy anything I'm working on to ...I pretty much copy anything I'm working on to a stick every day. And the older files are backed up via a external harddrive and two separate computers.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com