A reader asked me what my preferred storage medium for local backups. I know there are a lot of cloud storage options but let's limit this one to local solutions. Optical Disk Drives External HDD NAS Others I don't do backups Go hit the comments and share your choices and let me know why. The rest that followed was some sort of reality check and yet another lesson in making backups of backups. I immediately checked for the internal backups and found out that not all accounts had the latest copy. This blog specifically did not have a complete backup. Apparently, the huge account size (2.6GB) prevented the automated backup service to complete the daily backups. I still have the monthly backups and I could start from there but that would mean that I'll lose several weeks of entries or at most about a month. Read more in our articles including "Poll: What's your local back-up solution like?" and "Do you make local backups of your blog?".
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May 1, 2015A reader asked me what my preferred storage medium for local backups. I know there are a lot of cloud storage options but let's limit this one to local solutions.
Optical Disk Drives External HDD NAS Others I don't do backups Go hit the comments and share your choices and let me know why. The rest that followed was some sort of reality check and yet another lesson in making backups of backups. I immediately checked for the internal backups and found out that not all accounts had the latest copy.
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