FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 06-16-06: You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
As I write this, the Ur-Guru is running TrueImage on his laptop. The new version looks pretty good; I’m going to install it and test it next week. Meanwhile, I want to report some shocking statistics...
View ArticleBackup Con-Fusion
Last week a client sent me a link to a New York Times article about backup (free subscription required), the first part of which focused on the Maxtor Fusion drive. The Fusion looks just like my Maxtor...
View ArticleGive the Gift of Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 11-24-06
It’s the day after Thanksgiving and one of the biggest Christmas-shopping days in the U.S. That means it’s time to start giving the gift of backup. This past Monday, the author of the Securosis blog...
View ArticleTesting the GParted Live CD: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 09-14-07
Last week I mentioned that I’d seen an intriguing post on Lifehacker entitled “Copy and Paste your Entire Hard Drive with Two Clicks with GParted.” This sounded rather improbable to me, but I wanted to...
View ArticleI Need a Backup Blogger: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 10-06-07
Okay, be honest: who forgot to back up last week? Anyone? That’s the “Does anyone actually need me?” question. Because if you’ve all got your backups automated by now, does it matter whether I actually...
View ArticleTest-Driving the (Maxtor OneTouch) Mini: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 10-19-07
Yes, I’m two days late with this. Friday morning we were in Dunsmuir. It was raining so hard you couldn’t even see Mount Shasta, the Ur-Guru was in an evil mood because of the weather, and we were...
View ArticleThe Drawbacks of Dell DataSafe
Yep, this is late again. Sorry. I had a completely insane week last week. Part of the insanity gave me the topic for this week’s Backup Reminder, but I had to sleep for two days before I could write...
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Quadruple the Backup from Buffalo
Back in 2007, my BFF Jay Pechek sent me a bunch of Maxtor drives. Maxtor’s external hard drives are supposed to have a 5-year warranty, but there’s a little trick with this Free Stuff I get from PR...
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Is Online Backup Bad for the Environment?
Disclosure: this post contains Amazon affiliate links. I bet you’re smart enough to figure out which ones they are. As we were driving back from Palm Desert to Pasadena earlier this month, the Ur-Guru...
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Adventures in Data Recovery
A couple of years ago, an associate of the Ur-Guru’s in Europe bought a 1 Tb Buffalo DriveStation Duo to back up his business data. Last week it stopped working. “I’ve been using it in a RAID 1 array...
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