I discovered another use for the Firefox Scrapbook plugin.
Back when the discussion about moving from Blogger to WordPress was a hot topic, I got to thinking about saving my blog in a readable format. Not for any reason except that after awhile a blog starts to look like a book and someday, someone might find that interesting. …[continued]
Every time I write about backup I think it’s going to be the last time because, I mean, what else is there to say about it? …[continued]
There’s are many ways of running the same Legacy Family Tree database on multiple computers but this is my method: …[continued]
So far, so good. In five years of MRIN filing I’ve never needed a backup of my MRIN’s.
But, what I have done occasionally is swap numbers around and lose track of where else the MRIN’s exist in my database. …[continued]
Yesterday I called my cousin in Georgia, as I do periodically.
She was in the midst of backing up all her files to disk because her computer was acting funny, sending up ‘weird messages’ and crashing every few minutes. …[continued]
If you use Carbonite you’ll know that it creates a Backup Drive on your computer where you can view all the files that are backed up to their server as well as all files that are pending backup. …[continued]
I just watched Thomas’ webinar (available at Legacy webinars on CD) called Backing Up: Your Genealogy Data and if I wasn’t already doing it I still wouldn’t be. …[continued]
Now comes the nasty part. The ANCESTORS. 108 folders with 6,173 files. Although, not every single one of them is an image file. A few are text or pdf. It’s a broad count. Maybe there’s only 5,586 images, precisely. …[continued]
Today, my second Western Digital WD Elements 640 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive
While I’m in the middle of this, here’s an actual Fort Knox backup plan. I thought I already had one. Surprise! …[continued]
Moving on to lighter matters. Preservation of your digital files.
If you think because your files are backed up to extra hard-drives and disks you’re good to go for the next hundred years, or even five, think again. …[continued]
So, the big question is: Did my files survive the computer crash? Because we just love to hear those stories of utter devastation, don’t we? The pictures of towers burnt to a crisp. Melted hard-drives. Wisps of charcoal where wires used to be. …[continued]
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