It’s Not Just Me Nagging you to backup
Read this excellent blog post that was tweeted by Kevin earlier today. The post has a good summary on how one photographer handles his workflow and a quick review on some of the equipment he uses to backup his images. The kicker is his last paragraph. No matter what system you use, if your images aren’t backed up in at least two locations, stop what you are doing and take care of that. A friend…
Review How You Do Things.
One of the programs I use quite a bit is Tweetdeck, a very good Twitter client. Recently while at the UnLab, I noticed someone use Tweetdeck and every time a tweet came in concerning the UnLab, Tweetdeck on their laptop would beep. I had forgotten that Tweetdeck has a notify option. When I first installed the software the default option beeps and displays a notify message for every tweet that came in. I found this…
Test Your Restores
This mornings paper had an article about a website owner who's server was taken over by hackers. In the process the server contents and database were ; The unfortunate thing was the backups the owner thought were working failed during the ; So in addition to having to deal with the hassle of having websites down and rebuilding, the website owner now has to pay thousands to a data recovery company with no guarantee that…