Backup and File Management
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Before there was the Internet, my Dad Joe had two computers. One was at work. One was at home. He would carry work home with him on a floppy disc. Dad feels that the floppy discs served an excellent purpose… extra backup of data.
Dad wants to make things simple. He wants to have a program on his computer that opens. Once open, he wants to click buttons to tell the program which folders or applications to back up, then click “GO” and have it just back it all up for him. He’s not a fan of online storage. Dad believes, along with millions of other people, that any information put online is a target to be accessed by outsiders. Online storage is only as secure as the weakest link. Unfortunately, the weakest link is usually a human… not a computer.
The easiest way to backup your information is to use a removable drive. Simply plug it in to a USB port on your computer. Drag and drop any folders you want saved into the removable drive in your “my computer” window. Voila! The information is now backed up. If you have a lot of free space on your removable drive, you can do incremental backups. On the removable drive, right click your new file and choose to rename it. Add the date to the end of the file name and save. Now the next time you backup, add the date to that file name, as well. This gives you a comprehensive backup, where you can go and restore any document or file to a previous date if needed.
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3 Comments
Vidar Andersen
August 15th, 2007
at 3:01am
What I do to back up and mirror the important stuff is this.
The hardware: Two cheap and identical 500 GB external USB hard drives from TrekStor. € 99,- / USD 135,- each.
The software: MirrorFolder for Windows XP from TechSoft. € 28,5 / USD 39,- per computer license. (If anyone knows of a better software solution for mirroring and for other platforms, please share!)
Important files and folders on my workstation and laptop are set to be automatically mirrored on both of the external disks. Music, settings, etc are all mirrored on both of the disks for redundancy.
Further more, I can take one of the disks with me on the move without worrying about data loss.
Works for me ™ ! :)
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August 15th, 2007
at 3:01am
[...] I was reading Chris Pirillo’s lates blog entry about backup and file management this morning and it inspired me to share what I do to back up and mirror the important stuff. [...]
Danny
August 16th, 2007
at 7:39am
Hey Chris, why not just use memeo autobackup, you set it once and plug in your external drive, then when you save a file it automaticly saves it onto your external drive aswell, and if you dont have your backup drive on all the time, it tracks and when it is plugged in it will just copy it straight away