archives

If It’s All Digital, Won’t You Lose It Anyway?

Can digital photos and files really be lost forever? Yes, but it’s almost always easily avoidable. I’ll describe two simple habits that keep your precious files safe for decades, perhaps even centuries, to come.

Dealing With Proprietary Backup Formats

If your backup program writes to a proprietary format, you may not be able to access it decades from now. I’ll discuss how to prepare.

How Do I Get an Old Version of a Webpage?

It’s generally not possible to recover an older version of a webpage, but we’ll look at a couple of straws to grasp at.

What Is Your Most Trusted Method of Backing Up?

Trust in your backup is critical; so critical that I don’t fully trust any single approach. Instead, I layer backup types so that losing something important is nearly impossible. I’ll describe my system works and why the key step is simply starting.

Archiving – What it is and why you need to start

As our lives become more and more digital – from digital documents to photographs and videos – it’s time to become a little more intentional about how we keep and manage all the digital data that we’re accumulating. It’s time to think about archiving.