The Internet is Forever? - The War on Guns

The internet’s memory is fading in front of us. Preserve what you can. [More]

I know much of my stuff is gone and a lot of it hasn’t been stored on the Internet Archive. I’m sure I’m not alone.

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David Codrea is a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. View all posts by admin

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“I know much of my stuff is gone and a lot of it hasn’t been stored on the Internet Archive. I’m sure I’m not alone.”

If it’s important to you, you need to back it up in a manner the you control. Back it up on at least two types of media. Preferably keep a copy “off site” so that a flood or house fire or rogue alphabet soup agency raid doesn’t result in you losing everything.

Remember Mike’s missing thumb drive? “Absolved” is incomplete because he lost the only copy of at least one chapter.

Keep in mind that “the cloud” is not a magic spell. It’s just an expression meaning someone else’s computer that you have no control over.

The next part is as important, perhaps even more so, than regular backups. Make sure you can recover files from the backups onto your current system. Having backups on an 8″ floppy disk ain’t gonna help much if you don’t have a way to get the backed up files off of antique media. As part of your backup procedure, have a test file or two on your HDD. As soon as the backup completes, deliberately delete the test file(s) from the HDD and “recover” them from the backup.

If you can’t, that needs to be looked into and fixed. After all, the whole point of making backups is not the backups per se. The point is to be able to recover lost files from the backed up copy. If you can’t do that, then the effort put into backing things up is kinda wasted.

Now the bad part. The backup utilities Microsoft includes with Windows are better than nothing, but they kinda suck. The main flaws are that they by default only back up things that Microsoft considers important, that its not all that obvious how to change Microsoft’s choices, and it can be difficult to figure out how to restore a backed up file or files to their original location on the HDD.

But all is not lost. Until you chase down the software that can back up the files you want backed up, and figure out how to have your system do automated backups without your intervention. Just get into the habit of doing a “drag and drop” to put an article on a USB stick or two.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ultimate-windows-10-data-backup-guide/

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