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>Early last year Andy Baio wrote about how most of the archival projects Google touted in the early 2000s, such as Google News Archive and Google Groups, were quietly abandoned several years ago. Uh, aren't Google News Archive and Google Groups still alive and well?
Summary of the article > It’s gone because it was kept entirely on his blog Take backups.
At least the article opens with the conclusion, saves scrolling. Having said that, I did continue scrolling and the article goes on to say > More generally, relying on the internet as an archive is dangerous. And it is, at least, another point toward helping me feel vindicated for being that person who always says "and you have off site backups for when your house burns down, right?"
He had 2 copies on floppy two on disk (in a separate building) and another set at home on floppy's
That's why in 1979 I used to by 8 inch floppy's in multiples of thousands
Summary of the article > It’s gone because it was kept entirely on his blog Take backups.
Summary of the article > It’s gone because it was kept entirely on his blog Take backups.
At least the article opens with the conclusion, saves scrolling. Having said that, I did continue scrolling and the article goes on to say > More generally, relying on the internet as an archive is dangerous. And it is, at least, another point toward helping me feel vindicated for being that person who always says "and you have off site backups for when your house burns down, right?"
Silly if you consider how from a technical and practical standpoint nothing prevents you from carrying a backup of every important document you've ever owned and a good deal of photos and such with you in your wallet on an encrypted mini-SD-card. Wallet gets stolen? Make a new backup. House burns down? You have your backup. Drop off a card at friends or family, keep one at your employer, hell, stick them on the Christmas cards you send out each year to your nearest and dearest; with proper encryption you are the only one able to use them anyway.
It also doesn't help that people blindly trust the big tech companies to do this for them.
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At least the article opens with the conclusion, saves scrolling. Having said that, I did continue scrolling and the article goes on to say > More generally, relying on the internet as an archive is dangerous. And it is, at least, another point toward helping me feel vindicated for being that person who always says "and you have off site backups for when your house burns down, right?"
Definitely feel vindicated, it's the 3-2-1 rule 3 copies 2 different forms of media 1 offsite
Summary of the article > It’s gone because it was kept entirely on his blog Take backups.
Perhaps the internet archive's "way-back-machine" has a backup?
From the article:
Cooper should’ve backed his work up, or known to be more cautious with drafts. ... ... Admittedly, not everything has vanished. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has saved bits and pieces of Cooper’s blog dating back to January 3, 2012, but they are just snapshots of the blog’s front page for a given date, not capturing the blog in its entirety.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160125091732/http://denniscoope...
Summary of the article > It’s gone because it was kept entirely on his blog Take backups.
They closed his email-account too, though? It has never occurred to me to backup my entire Gmail archive. Should probably look into that now...
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They closed his email-account too, though? It has never occurred to me to backup my entire Gmail archive. Should probably look into that now...
Speaking of that, what is the best way to make a backup of the contents of an email account (not specifically Gmail, but IMAP in general)?