BACKUP because recovery is hard without the data!

Monday, February 6, 2006

One of the advantages of a home lan COULD be that you can automagically back up all the data on your primary machine to an old machine. In my case, my primary is this dell luggable, not loveable, and my “old” machine is in my garage. A free directory synchronizer like AllWaySync (http://allwaysync.com) or Karen’s Replicator (http://www.karenware.com), both FREE, can sync your primary machine to the secondary.

p.s., Because I am a belt and suspenders guy, I do make a monthly copy of my data on cd, put it on top of my mom’s refridgerator, and I still worry! 

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Reproducing a directory structure consistently

Monday, February 6, 2006

Following up on my idea of an “annualized” directory structure, I want to have the underlying directory structure built quickly and easily. SO … … going back to my old batch days it’s real easy to create a batch file in the root that does all the md’s (make directory) you need. “md x md y md z” I’m going to use the topcial as lower case and the people ones with the letter z. The the topics will sort to the top and the people to the bottom.

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Organizing the plethora of files that one has.

Monday, February 6, 2006

My latest thinking on directory organization is by “year” and then by topic. I reserve the year “0000” for the things that will never change and always be necessary to keep around. So, for example the scan of my drivers license in stored under \000\FJR and so I’ll always be able to find it when I need my DL number for all the dumb forms. It goes along with my concept of scanning everything. I am buried in paper and it’s a way of fighting back.

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A colleague says that they had a problem leaving a comment.

Monday, February 6, 2006

Hmmm, I did it and it worked. Probably time to flush the IE cache, cookies, and files and try again. This techonolgy stuff is not like using the telephone. Or, using the phone during the old Bell System days.

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NJ decided that the taxes I paid in 2002 aren’t … … whatever?

Monday, February 6, 2006

My accountant is stunned. He doesn’t understand. And, if he don’t what chance do I have. Argh! And people wonder why I am a Libertarian.

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Last year’s messes roll over into this year’s organization

Monday, February 6, 2006

As with most people, I collect digital flotsum and jetsum. This week’s great idea is consigned to the data dust bin. It would be nice to divide files, no directories of files, into timeless and annual categories. I’m trying to do that after the fact. I have a 2006 directory. Now I’d like to organize all of last year under 2005. Maybe 2007 will be better?

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