Back-ups are a good thing. Nay, a very good thing. Two years ago, I had an external hard drive fail and I lost all my music (including music I made myself), movies and thousands of pictures of my boys. We were able to get many of the images from relatives, Flickr and more, but I learned my lesson the hard way.
These days, I back up to the cloud. I use Mozy Home (now part of EMC) and for $4.95 a month I get unlimited online backups. Now my music, photos, videos, work stuff and more is backed up automatically and I don’t have to worry about it. Mozy has both Windows and Mac clients.
I blogged recently about backing your entire web root up to S3 , but maybe you don’t have the access or the knowledge to get that all set up.
If you’re using Wordpress to power your blog, this plugin may be right up your alley. It’s called the Wordpress Database Backup plugin and it pretty much does exactly what the name suggests. It backs up your Wo...
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Post Date: 2008-07-24 18:28:11
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