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  • Random Thoughts: Backing Up and More

    Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 13:13 in backups

    It is August again, and it seems I have less time for blogging every week. At the moment I have to devote most of my time to studying economics and business administration. Hence I rarely have time to test new applications, not to speak about testing...

  • Building a backup box

    Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 04:02 in backups

    A week ago, I wrote about my almost disastrous experience with a LaCie external hard drive. As I realized my data is not at all secured at the moment, I decided to build me a dedicated box for backups.I've been pretty busy during the last week, and m...

  • Backup - Articles and Applications

    Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 08:41 in backups

    In this posting, I collect some of the links about backing up a Linux system or at least the /home directory. The articles and applications mentioned here might be useful for some of my readers - but I wrote this basically to act as a reminder for my...

  • Rescuing LaCie - thinking about backups again

    Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 13:40 in hardware, backups

    Today in the morning, I turned my computer on and plugged my LaCie external hard drive on. Nothing happened. No icon appeared on the desktop. Soon I noticed that the led was blinking orange and green light and I heard the hard drive slowly click. Not...