{"id":226,"date":"2007-06-18T06:28:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T06:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/06\/18\/is-it-safe\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T06:28:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T06:28:03","slug":"is-it-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/06\/18\/is-it-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Is it safe?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few posts ago I mentioned that I was test driving backup software in response to my friend Rachelle&#39;s tragic data loss. I finally settled on an application, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handybackup.net\" title=\"Handy Backup\">Handy Backup<\/a>, $39. It&#39;s the only one I could find that dealt correctly with using FTP as a backup destination.  I highly recommend getting all your important files consolidated to one place and setting up a backup system. It&#39;s not as hard as you would think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things you Need to Remotely Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A machine that is always on or on a lot that has all the files you want to backup<\/li>\n<li>A server account that accepts FTP. Many ISPs already provide this. I get mine from <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamhost.com\/\" title=\"Dreamhost\">Dreamhost<\/a> with the bill for seantconrad.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How To Set-up The Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handybackup.net\" title=\"Handy Backup\">Handy Backup<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Create a task for every type of backup you want to do. I have three: &quot;Sean&#39;s Pics&quot;, &quot;Sean&#39;s MP3s&quot;, and &quot;WTB&#39;s Pics&quot;.<\/li>\n<li>Set the task to run periodically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you run it for the first time, the backup must run until completion to create the initial database of files. Subsequent backups run much quicker. I have my machine set to run them every night at 4AM.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s the piece of mind that this system gives me, letting me know that if the East River washes my stuff away, my photos, <a href=\"\/node\/302\" title=\"Sean Sandwich\">particularly this one<\/a>, are safely stored some place else. So now it is safe. <\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazydork.com\/movies\/marathonman.htm\" title=\"Is it safe...drink?\">The Marathon Man drinking game<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few posts ago I mentioned that I was test driving backup software in response to my friend Rachelle&#39;s tragic data loss. I finally settled on an application, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handybackup.net\" title=\"Handy Backup\">Handy Backup<\/a>, $39. It&#39;s the only one I could find that dealt correctly with using FTP as a backup destination.  I highly recommend getting all your important files consolidated to one place and setting up a backup system. It&#39;s not as hard as you would think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things you Need to Remotely Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A machine that is always on or on a lot that has all the files you want to backup<\/li>\n<li>A server account that accepts FTP. Many ISPs already provide this. I get mine from <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamhost.com\/\" title=\"Dreamhost\">Dreamhost<\/a> with the bill for seantconrad.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How To Set-up The Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}