{"id":480,"date":"2020-07-14T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T23:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/?p=480"},"modified":"2020-07-14T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T23:30:53","slug":"backups-for-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/backups-for-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Backups for Geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like to have control.  I want the &#8220;Settings&#8221; dialog for an application to have many pages of configurable options.  I love software that lets me tweak it to work exactly the way I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normal people want simple.  I do not have a recommendation for normal people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For people like me, I recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syncovery.com\/\">Syncovery<\/a> as your backup software.  I backup my work data to an encrypted drive daily.  I backup my personal data to Amazon Drive daily.  Because I&#8217;m paranoid, I backup my Amazon Drive data to Google Drive weekly.  All of this is done automatically by Syncovery, running on my laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tobiasgiesen.de\/index-en.htm\">Tobias<\/a> (the author) provides good support for the software.  It still follows the old-school model of paying for software once, so the $60 may seem like a lot, but you&#8217;ll definitely get your money&#8217;s worth over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to have control. I want the &#8220;Settings&#8221; dialog for an application to have many pages of configurable options. I love software that lets me tweak it to work exactly the way I want. Normal people want simple. I do not have a recommendation for normal people. For people like me, I recommend Syncovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}