Tags: backup

Dear all (and i’m point­ing at you, because you should know bet­ter),
BACKUP.
Get a drive, the same size/​brand/​type as the one you’re using on your com­puter. put it on an exter­nal cas­ing. on a mac you’ll do some­thing like sudo rsync -vaxE --delete --ignore-errors / /Volumes/backup/ (i’m assum­ing you named your drive backup instead of some­thing silly like pluto or arathorn or some­thing like that). I don’t have a clue about *nix, but i’m assum­ing it wouldn’t be *that* much dif­fer­ent. On win­dows it’s the same, as long as you do the sane thing and get cyg­win. If you’re on a desk­top, cron tab the socks out of that. On a lap­top, do it every chance you’ve got. Before you go to bed, while you shower, before any update, before you take your lap­top off your table. Seri­ously. Do it. Right. Now.

The uni­verse tends toward max­i­mum irony. Don’t push it.

- jwz — PSA: backups