I’ve been using multiple hard drives for around 15 years, since our 2nd familial computer. But it’s always been a case of filling up a drive, then buying a new one to store new stuff on it, and so on.
Recently, I’ve realized (better late than never), that it would be a good idea to back up some of my data. Over the years, I’ve lost some important files, pictures,… Sometimes, a hard drive just crashed, other times it was a stupid case of “There is probably nothing important on this drive, let’s format it!”. But all these cases could have easily been prevented if I just had backed up my important stuff, using my up-to 4 internal and 2 external hard drives (yes, I’m a data hoarder…).
That’s why I’ve decided to implement a real backup process; so far, I’m only using it for my important documents and my pictures, but I intend to extend it to other files as I go along.
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I’ve decided to implement a better back-up strategy for all my important data.
I’ll come back later about the back-up itself, but for now I’ll explain what I use to keep the personal stuff (documents,…) private. This means encryption!
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30 Apr 2014
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Copyright
Quick follow-up of my post on the creation of a non-free public domain.
20 years ago today, the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) released the World Wide Web in the public domain. What better example than that to illustrate the importance of the public domain in our everyday lives?
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28 Apr 2014
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Copyright
Like in many other countries in the world, the French government and lobbies have no respect for free stuff. One of the most obvious examples is their war against piracy (not real-life-ARRGHH piracy, but movies-and-games-torrent-downloading piracy), which may have some logical points (which I don’t agree with, but that’s a different issue).
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