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Over the weekend, I finally sat down and configured my automated backups. I mentioned before that I bought an external disk to facilitate backups. What I purchased was a Western Digital My Book. Wish I had it in my budget to go for the 1 TB Pro edition, but there are better things to spend my money on at the moment. (Like a new PC for the house whenever I get around to it.)
It came with some backup software, that I configured, so now, I will have a weekly backup of all my documents, and a nightly backup of my "critical" files. (Namely my writing.) These will occur in the wee AM hours, so they shouldn't impact my usage. Now what I need to do is a test restore to my PC to make sure that everything is working well, and a test restore to a different PC, to make sure that should this one go kaput for good and require a reinstall, or just plain new equipment, that I can still access the data. (I noticed that the software uses some kind of zip/compression to store the files, not a simple copy.)
Assuming that the tests go well, this takes enough pressure off my mind about the backups. I'll still use a memory stick to backup all my critical writing files as well, as I go. It's never a good idea to rely upon only one device for your backups after all. This should keep me in better shape in the near term.
Writing front, I'm in a quandary of: do I work on a few revisions that are long overdue? Try to jump into a fresh story? I should all ready be into the next phase, but after getting that last short done, I took the weekend off, spent time with the family, and caught up on some reading. Then I cracked down and wrote up some critiques that are long past due, and worked on an exercise that I'm doing with the members of the group. I am leaning toward stepping up the revisions as I need to get some more work into shape to get out the door. Otherwise, what the heck am I doing? Building up a closet of first drafts?
It came with some backup software, that I configured, so now, I will have a weekly backup of all my documents, and a nightly backup of my "critical" files. (Namely my writing.) These will occur in the wee AM hours, so they shouldn't impact my usage. Now what I need to do is a test restore to my PC to make sure that everything is working well, and a test restore to a different PC, to make sure that should this one go kaput for good and require a reinstall, or just plain new equipment, that I can still access the data. (I noticed that the software uses some kind of zip/compression to store the files, not a simple copy.)
Assuming that the tests go well, this takes enough pressure off my mind about the backups. I'll still use a memory stick to backup all my critical writing files as well, as I go. It's never a good idea to rely upon only one device for your backups after all. This should keep me in better shape in the near term.
Writing front, I'm in a quandary of: do I work on a few revisions that are long overdue? Try to jump into a fresh story? I should all ready be into the next phase, but after getting that last short done, I took the weekend off, spent time with the family, and caught up on some reading. Then I cracked down and wrote up some critiques that are long past due, and worked on an exercise that I'm doing with the members of the group. I am leaning toward stepping up the revisions as I need to get some more work into shape to get out the door. Otherwise, what the heck am I doing? Building up a closet of first drafts?
