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Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.

March 12, 2010
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I’ve writ­ten a lot about back­ing up your data over the years. But even though backups are import­ant, some­how they’re always 2nd or 3rd on the pri­or­ity list. ‘Some­thing to do when I get time’. And as Spring approaches, time is one thing that there’s going to be less of as pri­or­it­ies shift from inside […]

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Friday the 13th: Refuge in the backup

November 13, 2009
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Ok, it’s a lousy title for a movie, but it is a great reminder to review and execute your data backup strategies, both at home and online.
Why Fri­day the 13th?
Simply, it’s a day-date com­bin­a­tion that hap­pens infre­quently, almost ad-hoc. When it does occur, you can eas­ily plan to take time out to per­form your maintenance […]

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Backups don’t have to be painful

November 3, 2009

In a pre­vi­ous post (on my per­sonal blog) about pre­par­ing for your Win­dows 7 install­a­tion, I briefly dis­cussed backups. Aside from the obvi­ous reason of hav­ing a copy of your imort­ant stuff stored safely, backups have another bene­fit; they give you the con­fid­ence to work on your com­puter your­self — not hav­ing to rely on […]

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