Archive for February 25th, 2008

My kingdom for a *real* TAR for Windows

I am trying to create an backup solution for a Windows machine. I have grown to really like the SimpleLinuxBackup solution I have on the rest of my machines. It is simple (obviously) and performs both full backups and incremental backups.
There are five characteristics I need …

“what to include” - directories and files [...]

The Money Shot !

I’ve been watching the migratory birds along the Chesapeake Bay off an on over the past couple of months. And in that time I’ve also tried to photograph them on multiple occasions. I seldom was happy with the results. Today was different …

Captain, vee need morrd stor-age

Doing sufficient backups, building virtual machines, and storing my transient video collection “on-line” requires storage, storage, and more storage. With three computers now getting sufficient backups to give me moderate peace of mind, I needed more storage than my RAID1 NAS (network addressable storage) was ready to serve. I had 2 750GB drives but [...]