Maintenance

[bjarvis]

Losing an hour overnight due to the time shift sucks in a big way. I compensated by sleeping in an extra hour and loved every 3600 seconds of it.

Today is for maintenance. We bought replacement wipers for each of the cars yesterday but due to darkness and really ugly weather conditions, we held off installing them. Today, we get them onto the vehicles.

I'd like to get some more square dance choreo composed today, if at all possible. I don't have any large A2/C1 sessions in the near future, but the more I get into inventory now, the more cushion I have against future last minute gigs.

And it's laundry day, at least for the bed clothes.

I made full backups of my XP desktop and Linux boxen last weekend; the iMac is overdue. I'll get that running immediately. Sadly, it's an older model so the USB ports are 1.1 --very slow. I'm not willing to spend the money for a LAN-based or firewire backup system right now so I'll just set it up and let it run as long as it needs to. Had I a functioning neo-cortex, I would have started this Friday night so it would be done by now. Duh.

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[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I don't have any good backup storage outside of several DVD-RW discs for such a purpose and even then, it's not enough for a complete backup of both drives (120G and an older 17.2G) but before I can even do that, I need to degunk it of crap etc first...

Computer is slow and has terrible lag, especially when I type.

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

I'm still a fan of Mozy for Windows backups. It's nice not to have to worry about those backups. For my Mac I use my .Mac account and just backup the important stuff.

Backups that happen automatically? That's a good thing.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Of all the data I keep, the critical stuff is on my flash memory and I keep backups of that in two locations every 48 hours. All else is essentially disposable, duplicated to other machines or rebuildable.

The iMac is primarily my iTunes and iPhoto station; while I value those, I'm not willing spend money for a .Mac account. Since neither is updated very often, a periodic backup to a USB external disk works as a cheap alternative.

In my ideal world, I'd replace/upgrade all five machines in my office to have huge hard drives, gigabit ethernet, multiple huge monitors and fibre switches to a SAN array. Alas, that would take money away from my chocolate & Coke Classic budget. A geek can dream though. :-)

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

Hehe, that damn Coke and chocolate budget! Who needs it? I DO! :)

I also just like to have my critical files (documents and photos) automatically sent "offsite" in case of a disaster here at home (lightning strike, fire, etc.). If I were to lose everything here at home, all my critical stuff is remotely available. I just needed that peace of mind.

[zipperbear]

External drives on USB 2.0 ports can be shared on a network, you know.