Well, well. Backblaze are offering 3 months free if you sign up before December 31st, again. I first heard of this offer in 2013 when I published a post about in March that year. Backblaze is a cloud backup company that have a neat app that runs on your computer […]
Web
Backup your social media accounts
I’ll keep this short. You should download your Twitter data, Facebook data, and as you probably have that too, your Google data. You never know when you might be banned from using them, even accidentally. After you’ve saved that data, go to Instagram and Reddit and do the same! Twitter […]
Tech
Want 3 months of Backblaze?
Ho Ho Ho! The folks at Backblaze must be feeling the Christmas cheer as they're adding 3 months of Backblaze backup to anyone who signs up within the next 21 days. I’m a huge fan of Backblaze, having paid for the service since 2013 and had to recently use their […]
Photography
The Importance of Backups
How many backups do you have of your important files? I have several backups of my photo archive: * A local rsnapshot (incremental) backup made every six hours. * A local copy of my photos directory, which is a straight copy, including deletions. Synced daily. * A copy on another […]
Tech
3 months free Backblaze again
A long time ago in 2013 Backblaze had a “sign up and get an extra three months free” offer and they’re back at it again. For the next 32 days. click on this Backblaze signup link, you’ll get started on a free trial for a month to test it out, […]
Photography
Restoring From Physical Media
Remember DVDs? Last night while looking for the original photo of this dancing in the street photo I was horrified to find an empty directory! I had no idea when they were deleted. I searched my backups but of course the directories had been synced a long time ago and […]
Linux
Fill and span DVD archives with Discspan
I have a huge archive of photos. I shoot tens of thousands of photos every year. Storage requirements for all those photos was bad enough when I shot in Jpeg but then I switched to RAW and space usage jumped! Here’s what the last 3 years looks like: 169GB of […]
Linux
Backups save the day
A few weeks ago I blogged about my backup system. How I have two 1TB Iomega external drives and how one drive is a duplicate of everything on the other drive, and how I backup everything on my laptop and VPS accounts. It sometimes seem excessive but I’m paranoid. This […]