It's been a year since I looked at my backup strategy. Having just rebuilt my PC twice in the last few weeks it was a good time to go through the review. It's a bit of a hodgepodge but it's automatic and works. Here's the tools I use and a high-level view of how I do the backups. Read the rest »
Reviewing My Backup Strategy
The days of using a few floppy disks to backup important files are long gone. In going through my website I realized that the information about my backup strategy was a bit dated and didn’t reflect how I do things. Going through everything in order to write this article would also help me be sure I had a bulletproof backup strategy. The goal is to have a solid backup solution so I never have to use a file recovery tool like Data Rescue II. So here goes… My Backup Philosophy [...] Read the rest »
Hey! I’m a Rackspace Customer
Rackspace, a managed hosting provider, has acquired to companies that I use. I recently moved this site to Slicehost and now Slicehost is a subsidiary of Rackspace. Then I saw that Jungle Disk is also now a subsidiary of Rackspace. Jungle Disk is an online storage and backup solution that’s cross-platform. Although I bought their software long ago I hadn’t been using it until I recently started testing version 2 of their software. While press releases and and company comments about this type of thing are always positive there doesn’t [...] Read the rest »
10 Most Used Mac Apps
During the ramp-up to Leopard I’ve been reviewing the apps I use and why. So I headed out to my Wakoopa profile to see what it says I use the most. These are the top 10 apps based on how much I use them according to Wakoopa. 1. Firefox 2.0.0.x – Used almost 10 times more than the second place app and about 15% of the time my PC is turned on. What Wakoopa doesn’t catch is that I run apps in the browser – Google Reader and the WordPress [...] Read the rest »
Jungle Disk & Amazon S3
I’ve been looking at Jungle Disk for online storage and backup and so far I like what I see. Jungle disk is a good example of a software developer that has built a service on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services. In this case it’s the Amazon Simple Storage Service. Amazon S3 for short. Jungle Disk runs under OS X, Windows and Linux. I’ve only used the Mac version and everything in this article is related to the Mac version. Jungle Disk isn’t typical backup software and they rightfully [...] Read the rest »
