Backups Backups are important. Everyone knows this. Few do anything about it, most likely because it seems like one more thing (like getting life insurance, a will, a retirement plan, etc.) It also doesn’t have immediate consequences. However, if you need a backup,...
Last Sunday a dead hard drive reminded me that the TODO to upgrade and automate my cloud backups needed to be moved from “do when I have time” list — which for me is hard to distinguish from the “never” list — to the “do...
Let’s face it, those of us who work on computers for living have a lot of data sitting around. In fact, even those of us who don’t work on computers have a lot of data sitting around. We have multiple computers, each with giant hard drives, replicated by...
