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Summary of the article > It’s gone because it was kept entirely on his blog Take backups.
by corobo 10y ago
Summary of the article
> It’s gone because it was kept entirely on his blog
Take backups.
- jobigoud 10y agoAnd don't forget to test your restore.
- corobo 10y agoActually good point that should be the first rule 0. It's not a backup unless you know it restores 1. Always take backups 2. Backup the backup
- vacri 10y agoA few month ago someone here on HN stated "People don't want backups. People want restores". Can't recall who, though...
- majewsky 10y agoI've known (and retold) a similar saying for years: "Nobody wants backup. Everyone wants restore."
- lloyd-christmas 10y agoI think people are jaded due to windows automated backup, where you tell it to keep only the latest backup and it still manages to fill your hard drive with 50 of them.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoDoes blogger make that easy / possible?
- corobo 10y agoYes there's Google Takeout, but in this case I'd more back up the originals rather than whatever comes out of Google's optimizations
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoSure, if we're talking about saving a copy of an image, I agree. I assumed that there was original content (i.e. writing) that had simply been entered directly into blogger, which a typical writer might not know how to backup at all.
- soft_dev_person 10y agoThey closed his email-account too, though? It has never occurred to me to backup my entire Gmail archive. Should probably look into that now...
- corobo 10y agoAdmittedly email has also been in my blind spot too.. Not a bad plan that.
- Klathmon 10y agoHere is a one-click service to backup everything in your google account. Email, google drive, youtube, location history, blogger blogs, bookmarks, calendar, literally ever google service. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
- pjc50 10y agoWhat format does this produce? A bit of googling suggests mbox. What happens to 'labels' on emails?
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoMBOX is correct. Labels become folders. Mail that has multiple labels will be duplicated into each folder.
- SlashmanX 10y agoIf you click "details" you can see the format each service is exported as
- soft_dev_person 10y agoNice tool, and can produce archive directly to Dropbox (or Drive, or OneDrive). Now, if they only could add a periodic option...
- vertis 10y ago
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoAt least the article opens with the conclusion, saves scrolling. Having said that, I did continue scrolling and the article goes on to say > More generally, relying on the internet as an archive is dangerous. And it is, at least, another point toward helping me feel vindicated for being that person who always says "and you have off site backups for when your house burns down, right?"
- corobo 10y agoDefinitely feel vindicated, it's the 3-2-1 rule 3 copies 2 different forms of media 1 offsite
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoCan you qualify what "2 different forms of media" means? I'm assuming one physical, one cloud. Do you consider two separate external HDD's with the data on it to fail that test because they are the same form? When my music collection was smaller, I had everything backed up onto an external as well as had them all physically burned onto like 50 DVDs. Since my collection has grown beyond a terabyte, however, I haven't had the time or energy to keep that up. Now it's just an external, a travel external, a redundant external, and a cloud backup.
- corobo 10y agoA few examples I can pull off the top of my head - DVD, Disk (HDD), Disk (SSD), Disk (Flash.. maybe?), Tape, Cloud So Disk (HDD) and Cloud is fine. Two HDDs (spinny platter style) would indeed fail the test. If you want to argue it you could probably get away with different manufacturers or different batches but I'd prefer my backups to play nicely with the rules rather than try to avoid them! Far-fetched as it is but lets say for example you have a power surge that takes out your external disk (is that even possible?). Chances are high whatever did that would also do that to your other disk. Or maybe a wall caves in and decimates your PC (or you just sweep the desk somehow and knock everything off it. Maybe the desk has collapsed) - The spinny disks may be destroyed if they are both hit hard enough. Mixing an HDD and SSD, the SSD would probably be more hardy against shock damage. From another comment I made in this thread somewhere "I consider "cloud" as its own media type to avoid the pedantics of me storing files on a spinning disk and the cloud provider does too. Chances are they have server grade disks and their own backups [so it's different to just a raw disk]" Edit: I use too many brackets here. I am going to attend my next available parenthesis anonymous support group.
- amelius 10y agoPerhaps the internet archive's "way-back-machine" has a backup?
- nl 10y agoDo people even read the posted articles at all?! From the article: Cooper should’ve backed his work up, or known to be more cautious with drafts. ... ... Admittedly, not everything has vanished. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has saved bits and pieces of Cooper’s blog dating back to January 3, 2012, but they are just snapshots of the blog’s front page for a given date, not capturing the blog in its entirety.
- xigency 10y agoProbably not a backup of his email though!
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- hiou 10y agoThanks Dad.