Organizing the bytes
Apr. 30th, 2008 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI'm still trying to figure out how I want to organize the stuff on my computer - where to keep the pictures, music, books, miscellaneous and where and how to back them up. I started making lists and then stopped. I need to think about what I want them for and what I want to retrieve why and how...
I can see wanting to find a photograph that I know I took a few years ago... or find a document. How would I look for those and where?
My books (mp3's) are stored on an external harddrive. What happens if that breaks? My pictures are stored in various folders on my 'server' computer's harddrive. What happens if that goes belly up?
These days I have most everything super critical stored somewhere online - on a website of mine or a wiki or somewhere. All of my finances are online. So if the house crashes and I lose everything, I won't be totall SOL.
In the old days, I used to be totally anal about saving every single email. I'm not so much any more but then with gmail, I don't really ahve to be. I've been using gmail now for all my email (gmail and susandennis.com) that there is a nice little database built up there for reference checking when I need it and I often do.
I keep Outlook running on one of the computers simply as a local gmail backup. And that is backed up to an external drive.
So I actually think I'm very close to being covered as far as having redundant systems in place and functional. At least I hope so.
Nice.
I can see wanting to find a photograph that I know I took a few years ago... or find a document. How would I look for those and where?
My books (mp3's) are stored on an external harddrive. What happens if that breaks? My pictures are stored in various folders on my 'server' computer's harddrive. What happens if that goes belly up?
These days I have most everything super critical stored somewhere online - on a website of mine or a wiki or somewhere. All of my finances are online. So if the house crashes and I lose everything, I won't be totall SOL.
In the old days, I used to be totally anal about saving every single email. I'm not so much any more but then with gmail, I don't really ahve to be. I've been using gmail now for all my email (gmail and susandennis.com) that there is a nice little database built up there for reference checking when I need it and I often do.
I keep Outlook running on one of the computers simply as a local gmail backup. And that is backed up to an external drive.
So I actually think I'm very close to being covered as far as having redundant systems in place and functional. At least I hope so.
Nice.
