Throughout this project, I’ve had to shed pieces of the plan off as I realized that they: were too expensive were too time consuming had low WAF I stumbled upon a 500Gb drive for under $90 on TigerDirect, which allowed…
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Home Backup Project – Part 5: Evaluating Incremental Backup Options
The most crucial piece of this project is keeping the primary family computer, a 20″ iMac, backed up. This project might as well never have happened if this one task were incomplete. I evaluated several options for keeping the machine…
Instantbird
Recently released, Instantbird is a cross-platform, multi-protocol Instant Messaging client, built on Mozilla’s XUL framework, implementing Pidgin’s libpurple for connectivity. This is version 0.1, and already it’s off to a good start, supporting all of the libpurple clients out of…
Home Backup Project – Part 4: Creating ISO images
As part of the ongoing home backup project, I’ve tasked myself with converting all of my installation media to disk images (.iso files) so as to allow me to recover said media in the event that, say, my house blew…
Home Backup Project – Part 3: Subversion Clients
As part of the ongoing home backup project, I’ve been testing various SVN clients to make sure I have a good working application for both home and work environments. At work I run WinXP Pro and therefore use TortoiseSVN because,…
Home Backup Project – Part 2: Plan!
The next step in this project was to visualize the future case – where should my data reside in working form and in archive form. Then, I had to figure out what’s feasible now and what’s feasible down the line.…
Home Backup Project – Part 1: Identify the Problem
This is the first post in a series about how I have implemented what I hope is a solid data backup strategy for myself. I may be completely off of my rocker, but I feel a lot more secure about…
In which I pontificate about the importance of backups
In the past six months or so, a few events have made me realize that my home backup strategy plain stinks! First, the fire alarm at my house went off… exactly once. It was a horrifically loud squelch, and I…
The Best of Intentions
Also known as the “post that tells everyone why you’re here and is almost like a disclaimer without being legally binding.” This site has, for about a year, been nothing more than a page telling the internets about one of…
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