Posts Tagged ‘backup’

How to Tell When Your Hard Drive is Going to Fail

Hard drives form the basis of our computing. The use of computers comes down to manipulating data, and the hard drive is, of course, where we store all our data; family albums, music, work documents, email, the list goes on.

Most of the components in your computer are electronic devices. They don’t fail with time like a mechanical device such as a car. But your hard drive is one of… » Continue

March 24 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: backup, data, diagnosis | 15 comments»

My Redundant Productivity System

Backing up your data is an essential part of digital life and protects you from losing important information. But when something goes wrong with one of your systems, it can mean you have to sift through thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of files for each project you’re involved with.

Over the last few months, I set up a redundant productivity system. While I ensure that my data is backed up… » Continue

March 3 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: backup, redundancy, storage, workflow | 6 comments»

How to Back-up Your Life

Too often people go through life with a tunnel vision approach of how they plan to go about their daily activities, long term goals and work related endeavors. Any well thought-out strategy is successful because the planners know that “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”.

Life is always tossing in the monkey wrench. You should never assume that what you plan today will… » Continue

January 17 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: backup, career, home, planning | 19 comments»

Trial by Fire Productivity - The Unexpected

This post is part of the Trial By Fire Productivity series.

“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.” ~ Tom Robbins

This wasn’t the entry I expected to post this week.

Last week the death rattle of my hard drive whirred loudly, and the drive crashed. It happens. I suppose it… » Continue

March 23 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: backup, data, software, trial-by-fire | 6 comments»

Four ways to automatically backup your hard drive

There are many pieces of software that are available to help you backup your hard drive. However in my opinion, the simplest and most customizable way of backing up your hard drive is to do so with a homemade script. I will show you how to create a very simple script that will backup your entire hard drive on the first run. With each successive… » Continue

March 14 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: backup, Productivity, Technology, windows | 16 comments»

Organizing Paper and Information: 7 Mistakes that Sabotage Your Productivity

As Professional Organizers helping people organize their home offices and workspaces, here are the 7 biggest information-organizing mistakes we see in our work with clients– are you making these mistakes too?

1. Not knowing the difference between “Action” & “Reference”

This concept is very important for beginning to get through your piles. You need to separate out paper and information that requires action from information that simply needs to… » Continue

February 27 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: backup, file, information, organization, paper, Productivity | 9 comments»

Back Up Your Gmail using POP3 feature

Email is important, especially they are business related and important to archive. You never want this happens to you. Chris Brogan has reminded me to backup my Gmail account by enabling and using POP access.

The help document of enabling POP in Gmail. You may have done it before, but remember to take Chris’s advice to also backup your email client data files offline as well.

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4. When it’s… » Continue

January 1 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: backup, gmail, software | 1 comment»

Introduction to 90 Online File Storage Services

Listible has a list of online services on file storage. The list currently stays at 93 sites - many for you to choose from. Most of them are free and easy to use. You can use them to send big files, or backup your documentations. Some services can be accessed from your web browser, others may have a client program for you to auto-backup your hard drive. I personally… » Continue

August 3 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: backup, software | 135 comments»

Ask Readers: Backup Strategies & Methods

I’m just getting ready to do some backups of my system, and I was going to do a pile of DVDs as my backups, but then I realized just how much time that would take. Booooooring. So now I’m thinking that I’ll just go buy an external hard drive, shove everything over, and store it somewhere else.

And then it dawned on me: I know LOTS of people who stick… » Continue

July 11 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backup, bestpractices, data, howto, Lifehack, storage, tips | 26 comments»

Back up Your Blog

Engadget runs a really great howto article on backing up your blog. I must freely admit that, until reading this, I hadn’t considered this one bit. Somehow, I just thought my host would handle it. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Wouldn’t I feel cruddy if all my work just vanished one day?

Bad things happen. If you’ve ever worried that the over caffeinated tech might spill his latte down… » Continue

June 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backup, blog, engadget, howto, sysadmin | 2 comments»

Backup Your Macintosh

The Sitening blog has a tutorial on how to backup your Mac intelligently. It’s well considered and goes through steps, what to expect, and some of the tricks you might encounter along the way.

Last week Jon wrote about the horrifying experience everyone eventually has to deal with - data loss. His wife’s hard drive failed - and without a current backup to rely upon - he went through two… » Continue

May 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backup, computers, dataprotection, howto, mac, macintosh, sitening | 3 comments»

11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks

It is always good to backup your stuff - especially to find some ways to backup your online bookmarks, because there aren’t any ways to retrieve it if the service is down, or gone. Backup del.icio.us has 11 ways to backup your bookmarks, such as: