{"id":1146,"date":"2005-12-01T10:38:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/making-backups-useful\/"},"modified":"2005-12-01T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T14:39:43","slug":"making-backups-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/making-backups-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Backups Useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=60\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=60\">\r\n<p>\r\nWhat&rsquo;s really sad is that the small percentage of people who do make the heroic effort of backing up are kidding themselves if they think they&rsquo;re much better protected. There are many, many ways a person can lose data. Too many to count, yet the backup strategies typically employed by &ldquo;plain folks&rdquo; protect against only two: hard drive failure and careless erasure. In a world where hard drive reliability is at an all time high, and most data sits in the &ldquo;Trash Can&rdquo; or &ldquo;Recycle Bin&rdquo; for some time before being permanently deleted, these particular dangers may be much less probable than other risks that are obliviously under-addressed.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nOne of these days, I should set up a script that copies my latest backups to the Web server in California.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: What&rsquo;s really sad is that the small percentage of people who do make the heroic effort of backing up are kidding themselves if they think they&rsquo;re much better protected. There are many, many ways a person can lose data. Too many to count, yet the backup strategies typically employed by &ldquo;plain folks&rdquo; protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}