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A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website

March 1, 2010 in How-To by Julie Meloni

Backing up your primary workstations is important and has been the topic of several ProfHacker posts. But in this post I discuss some methods for ensuring that your website content is backed up and retrievable should your hosting provider have "issues."

Syncplicity: Syncing More than a Folder

October 19, 2009 in Productivity by Prof. Hacker

Guest author Heather Whitney explains how she uses Syncplicity to coordinate multiple computers, and why she prefers it to Dropbox.

Prof. Hacker Reviews: CloudBerry Online Backup

August 19, 2009 in Reviews by Julie Meloni
Previously on Prof. Hacker, Jason wrote “Backup for Back-to-School: 15% off Backblaze,” a post that offered some good points on backing up your data in the cloud as well as a service (and a current discount offer) to do so. As he noted, Backblaze is not the only backup service out there, and that’s true—there [...]

Backing up Your Social Network

August 14, 2009 in How-To by Ethan Watrall
Social network apps and platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have revolutionized the way academics maintain existing social & professional connections, renew those connections, and forge new connections within and across disciplines.  In particular, Twitter has transformed the the ways in which many scholars (especially those in the digital humanities) connect and share ideas.  But [...]

Saving data? Saving money!

August 14, 2009 in Life by George H. Williams
If your office were to go up in smoke like the one in this photo, would your essential data be archived somewhere off-site, allowing you to get back on track without too much delay? Furthermore, Could you afford to buy all new equipment? While we’re on the subject of backing up your data, let’s consider [...]

Backup for Back-to-School: 15% off Backblaze

August 13, 2009 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones
Speaking of files . . . Backup is complicated to do well.  It needs to be regular, preferably automagical, probably in multiple versions, and really, one of those versions should be offsite.  But who has the time to arrange all that?  Apple’s Time Machine takes care of the regular and automagical parts, but usually the Time [...]