2015 Survey Results
Thank you to everyone who took a few minutes to fill out my 2015 survey. Here are some of the results of the questions you answered. 1. What do you find useful that I write about? There was a almost three way tie with the following topics. Backup,Technology and Mac 2. What do you want me to write more about. Technology News followed by Backup and Mac. 3. Would you be interested in the following…
Check those backups
Even though you may have properly set your backups to notify you by email if there is a problem, it never hurts to sometimes check things. I had one of the my blog backups notify me of a problem earlier today, after checking and correcting the problem, I took the opportunity to review the other website backups I have. I didn't find any problems, but I did notice one or two options that would improve performance.…
Dropbox and BackWPup to Backup WordPress Blogs
Reading some interesting creative uses for Dropbox, a file sync/storage service that is very popular. One thing some people use it for is to backup their blogs to. In terms of using it strictly as a backup service is not always recommended, in terms of a offsite destination certainly is worth looking at. Backups for blog should follow the same basic guidelines I have for backups from your system. There should be 3 copies, 1…