I back up a lot. I have scripts that do automated backups and I often backup to CD. But there are times when I want to be able to do a quick and dirty backup of a single directory, in order to email a directory, or so that directory can be added to a later [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 26th, 2009
- Comments: 5
Easy CD Burning in GNOME
The ability to burn CDs is one of those issues that often perplexes many new users (to any operating system). For Windows users it’s about finding software to do the job. For OS X users it’s about knowing where to add a burnlist. For Linux users it’s just knowing that your operating system can in [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 22nd, 2009
- Comments: None
Back up your Apache web directory and database with this simple script
I administer a lot of web sites. And all of these web sites need backup solutions. Since most of those web sites use LAMP servers it only made sense to set up a backup system using the available, included open source tools. It didn’t take long to create a solid backup system and, with the [...]
Verify File Integrity Of Backups
Creating backups is just one step in taking precautions that sensible data can be recovered if anything should happen to a computer’s storage device. Depending on the location they are stored in backups can also be subject to change. This can for example be the case if parts of the backup storage become unreadable.
It is [...]
Avanquest Software AutoSave Essentials Competition
AutoSave Essentials is a new commercial backup software developed by Avanquest which can be used to backup important data easily with minimal user interaction. That is the biggest selling point of the software. It comes with three predefined backup plans for music, documents and photos minimizing the time a user needs to configure the backup [...]
Zoogmo Secure Peer To Peer Backups
Zoogmo offers a way to securely backup personal data and store that data on so called partner computers. Partner computers can be anything from USB devices, network computers or even the computer of your friend that you can access over the Internet. The advantage of this approach is that you backup will be stored in an encrypted form on an external computer so that it remains accessible in the case of a computer crash.
Protect your important files against corruption
Files do not last forever. Corruption can be caused by hard drive failures or unreadable compact disks for instance. The files might be partially readable but this does not help much if it is corrupted. There are some ways of preparing yourself against data loss. One obvious way is of course to make regular backups of your important files. But it could of course happen that backups get corrupted as well which most of the time happens in the worst moments possible.
