computoman

You just bought a new computer and the first thing you want to do is to turn it on and play with it. DON'T. You will want to make a pristine duplicate of your computer's hard drive first. Why? Because that way you can be sure that you can go back to the beginning if you need to. In fact, I recommend getting two extra drives unless you have a server with plenty of space. Why two drives?  The first drive will be a duplicate of the virgin hard drive. The second drive will be a duplicate of the modified and  setup system you can use as a base in case you have problems.  After setting up thousands of systems in the corporate environment, the words come from experience. You will also need software to back up your drives without it having to be installed. You will have to do some research as they change all the time. The two I have used most is Clonezilla and Ghost. Clonezilla is free for personal use. Best to read the manual before using the software. Eve...

Hope that your data in the cloud never gets held hostage or even just disappears. So how secure is your data on the web? Can you afford to lose your web presence because government interference, a website's hardware issues,or even the company holding your web presence  and or data hostage? What's your backup?

Hope that your data in the cloud never gets held hostage or even just disappears. So how secure is your data on the web? Can you afford to lose your web presence because government interference, a website's hardware issues,or even the company holding your web presence  and or data hostage? What's your backup?

i Just some thoughts or suggestions I have put together. Just a few. more coming. For more details see: http://www.instructables.com/id/Computing-hints-or-ideas/

We have no trouble about backing up our personal computers. What do we do about what we have on-line? I found a fairly easy solution for one site called Blogger.com. Guess what it is?  That good old wget command. You could download a site with: $ wget -c -r www.whateverthesitenameis.com The command will recursively get all of the website it can and stay on top of getting the site till it is done. So then (if your computer supports long file names), you would have a directory called www.whateverthesitenameis.com. Cool. You can also go to www.archive.org and have them back up your site. This is great for any site you do not want to lose. Then I thought about it and wanted to go one step further. That is directly put the files on another local server so I could access them at will. Also did not want to interfere with the existing web pages. So we need an Apache web server that supports virtual hosts. On that server where you have administrative rights. You want to set up yo...