Tag Archives: backup

Simple but efficient backups

Posted on August 4, 2012 by ejrh

Backups are perennially on my To-do list. Just having them would be good, but more than that I want to automate their creation and maintenance. My problem, of course, is I prefer to make my own system for doing this … Continue reading →

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Using the NTFS journal for backups

Posted on July 6, 2012 by ejrh

This post (in draft for almost 18 months) describes my amateur understanding of an interesting and useful NTFS feature, the USN Journal, and shows how I’m using it as part of a simple backup program in Python. It also gives … Continue reading →

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World Backup Day again!

Posted on April 3, 2012 by ejrh

It was World Backup Day a few days ago, and for once Slashdot managed to warn us about it ahead of time. Well done to them, and I hope it’s a policy they apply for future events. (For a moment … Continue reading →

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Minor hardware improvements and plans

Posted on November 30, 2011 by ejrh

Pretty minor indeed: some obscure hardware parameters are now more impressive, but no noticeable changes to performance.  Well, you can’t put a price on bragging rights…

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World Backup Day

Posted on April 1, 2011 by ejrh

Was yesterday, the 31st of March.

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