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Scattered Home Backups
06.Jul.07 | 6 Comments
I spent some time today ensuring that all of my home machines are being backed up to another home machine for a bit of redundancy. I’ve been a bit too casual with the home stuff lately — and considering that most of my gear is someone else’s trash or “upgrade left-overs” that’s just no [...]
The Wonders of 7-Zip
06.Apr.07 | 1 Comment
This past week, I've spent a lot of time going over our nightly job streams and the various relationships between jobs across our many servers. These jobs handle things like code promotion, database syncs (dev/qa/prod), backups, mirrors, disaster recovery, etc. etc. Things have changed a lot since I initially put a lot of [...]
TrueCrypt & SyncToy & Mozy - Almost a Great Idea
04.Apr.07 | 6 Comments
Recently, the Security Now podcast took a question about security and online backups. Steve Gibson had some thoughts:
[...] TrueCrypt would be a perfect solution. You configure TrueCrypt in that mode where it uses a file as its container, and then you mount that as a drive. You see a drive from your perspective. On [...]
Nerve-racking
26.Jan.07 | 3 Comments
My work laptop has been unstable lately. Nothing too weird, but once a day or so it just locks up. Hard. No crash. Nothing in the event viewer. ctrl-alt-delete does nothing. Just locks up and the only cure is a complete power cycle.
Annoying.
I use this thing pretty hard and [...]
Mozy Updates
14.Dec.06 | Leave a Comment
Mozy is a backup service that I first wrote about last August. It generated some interesting comments but so far I've been pretty happy with it. It just sits down there in the tray and does its job once a week. The restore I tried out even worked.
I received an email [...]
