FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-30-05: Don't Use CD-RWs for Year-End Backups
Another year is drawing to a close, which means it’s time for your year-end backups. (For more detail on end-of-year backups, see my December 2004 backup reminder.) Strictly speaking, year-end backups...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 04-14-06: Back Up Your Taxes 2006
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Of course, you may be up to your eyeballs in your 1040s and Schedule Cs and too busy to read this today, but it’s not enough just to file (or even pay) your taxes....
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 06-30-06: Back Up While You Can Still Afford To
Backup Awareness Month is over, but that doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about backups. (Did anyone win a drive from Maxtor? Inquiring minds want to know.) In an attempt to cut down on music and...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 09-08-06: CD Backups in Mac OS X
Last week I arrived at a client’s place for a non-IT-related job and found a note saying “Do you know how to do CD backups?” In the circumstances, the answer was “maybe.” I know several ways of getting...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 11-10-06: Xbox "Backups" and Dual-Layer DVDs
I don’t own an Xbox 360 and I suspect most of my readers don’t, either, but some of the millions of people who do decided that they wanted to be able to back up their games. (In this case I strongly...
View ArticleIs It Time for Year-End Backups Again? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-29-06
We interrupt this program for a special announcement: 2006 is at an end! Okay, you knew that, and I knew that, but I was all set to write the next installment of the website backup series when it...
View ArticleIt's Time for the Annual Archive: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 01-11-08
This is the post I was planning to write last week, your annual reminder that you need to archive your data at the end of each year. (If your fiscal year is different from the calendar year, you should...
View ArticleShampooing Your Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 02-08-08
I don’t write a lot about CDs and DVDs these days. For most things, they’re kind of a nuisance as a backup medium. They’ve never had the drag-and-drop simplicity of floppy diskettes, and not all discs...
View ArticleWhy You Still Need an Optical Drive
CDs and DVDs are a pretty clumsy way to make backups now that external drives and online backup services are so readily available. They only hold so much data, they’re subject to scratching, and they...
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Changing the Photo Backup Paradigm
A couple of weeks ago (back when I should have been writing this post), the Ur-Guru and I had a conversation about archival storage. He wondered what was going to replace DVDs, particularly for photos,...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-30-05: Don't Use CD-RWs for Year-End Backups
Another year is drawing to a close, which means it’s time for your year-end backups. (For more detail on end-of-year backups, see my December 2004 backup reminder.) Strictly speaking, year-end backups...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 04-14-06: Back Up Your Taxes 2006
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Of course, you may be up to your eyeballs in your 1040s and Schedule Cs and too busy to read this today, but it’s not enough just to file (or even pay) your taxes....
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 06-30-06: Back Up While You Can Still Afford To
Backup Awareness Month is over, but that doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about backups. (Did anyone win a drive from Maxtor? Inquiring minds want to know.) In an attempt to cut down on music and...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 09-08-06: CD Backups in Mac OS X
Last week I arrived at a client’s place for a non-IT-related job and found a note saying “Do you know how to do CD backups?” In the circumstances, the answer was “maybe.” I know several ways of getting...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 11-10-06: Xbox "Backups" and Dual-Layer DVDs
I don’t own an Xbox 360 and I suspect most of my readers don’t, either, but some of the millions of people who do decided that they wanted to be able to back up their games. (In this case I strongly...
View ArticleIs It Time for Year-End Backups Again? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-29-06
We interrupt this program for a special announcement: 2006 is at an end! Okay, you knew that, and I knew that, but I was all set to write the next installment of the website backup series when it...
View ArticleIt's Time for the Annual Archive: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 01-11-08
This is the post I was planning to write last week, your annual reminder that you need to archive your data at the end of each year. (If your fiscal year is different from the calendar year, you should...
View ArticleShampooing Your Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 02-08-08
I don’t write a lot about CDs and DVDs these days. For most things, they’re kind of a nuisance as a backup medium. They’ve never had the drag-and-drop simplicity of floppy diskettes, and not all discs...
View ArticleWhy You Still Need an Optical Drive
CDs and DVDs are a pretty clumsy way to make backups now that external drives and online backup services are so readily available. They only hold so much data, they’re subject to scratching, and they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Changing the Photo Backup Paradigm
A couple of weeks ago (back when I should have been writing this post), the Ur-Guru and I had a conversation about archival storage. He wondered what was going to replace DVDs, particularly for photos,...
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