{"id":40,"date":"2004-10-26T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/the-great-backup-strategy\/"},"modified":"2021-04-10T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T00:22:38","slug":"the-great-backup-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/the-great-backup-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Backup Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a confession. I haven&#8217;t been backing up my data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What!? Do you think hard drives last forever? What about all your financial records? What about all the <em>church<\/em> financial records? Aren&#8217;t <em>all<\/em> your kids&#8217; pictures on your computer? What were you thinking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was trying to burn a CD periodically. But sometimes I didn&#8217;t get around to it. And I couldn&#8217;t fit all the digital pictures onto a single CD. I didn&#8217;t really have a plan. I finally <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050603075244\/http:\/\/discuss.joelonsoftware.com\/default.asp?joel.3.10085.18\">asked for advice<\/a> in the Joel on Software forum. And now here&#8217;s my Great Backup Strategy:<\/p>\n<p>I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotdealsclub.com\/deal\/604d50907bb664f577624e2f6f859080\/\">good deal<\/a> on a 120gb internal drive. (Bigger than I need, but I can also use it as scratch-space for making home-movies.) I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2brightsparks.com\/syncback\/\">SyncBack<\/a> (I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s freeware &#8212; I highly recommend it.) My computer now updates the backup copy of my data files every 30 minutes. Cheap &amp; easy!<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, I would also automatically rsync my data to some server, but I have dial-up, so any off-site data storage will have to involve some walking. Besides, I&#8217;ve got to do <em>something<\/em> with all those CD-R discs I got for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotdealsclub.com\/deal\/c1f2d18e04a8f706d45e38d2d182f92a\/\">free after rebate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a confession. I haven&#8217;t been backing up my data. &#8220;What!? Do you think hard drives last forever? What about all your financial records? What about all the church financial records? Aren&#8217;t all your kids&#8217; pictures on your computer? What were you thinking?&#8221; Well, I was trying to burn a CD periodically. But sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}