Previously, I have shown you how to schedule a database backup using cron job and email yourself the database file, but if you have a big database, you will find that the emailing method might not work as well as you want it to be. A good alternative to this is to upload your database to Dropbox. Here is a simple script that you can use to backup your database to Dropbox.
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How to Schedule Regular Database Backup to Dropbox
By | February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments
Super Flexible File Synchronizer Is A Free Backup Tool, With Support For Google Docs [Linux]
By | January 30, 2012 | 3 Comments
Ever since Google opened up its Google Docs to allow uploading files of any type, most people have quickly utilized it as a free online storage/backup services. What is lacking though is a tool to sync your files from your desktop to Google Docs. Super Flexible File Synchronizer is one such app that allows you to do so.
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Backup Your Online Data With Google Takeout
By | July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
What’s one of the most frustrating things about using any online service? Getting your data out of a service.
With some, that can be fairly easy. With many others, it can be difficult, if not impossible. But you should be able to get your information – no matter what the information is – out of any online service easily and in a format that other services or software can read. After all, it’s your data!
Thanks to the work of the Data Liberation Front project, Google has been making the process of getting your data out of its various products easier. The result is Google Takeout. While not complete and not perfect, Google Takeout looks like it’s a step in the right direction.
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How to Schedule Database Backup Using Cron Job
By | July 25, 2011 | 9 Comments
For backing up of your WordPress database, there are plenty of plugins around that can get the job done. Some of them backup only your database while others backup the whole WP directory. If you have used WordPress long enough, you will realize that these plugins are not reliable. They will work one day and fail another day, for thousand and one reasons. It could be that they are not compatible with the new WordPress version that you have upgraded to, or that they are conflicting with a newly activated plugin. As in my case, it could also because your database is getting too big for them to handle.
Whatever the reasons, rather than relying on plugins, a better alternative is to use a cron job in your server and schedule it to backup your database everyday.
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How to Configure Amazon S3 as a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
By | June 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
If you are running a website with fairly high traffic, one of the things that you will want to do is to migrate your images/videos out of your server and serve them from a Content Delivery Network (CDN). The greatest benefit of a CDN is that it can serve your web content from the location closest to your reader, and thus speed up the loading of your site, reduce your server bandwidth usage and of course rank well in the search engine.
While there are many CDN providers around, the one that I will go for is Amazon CloudFront. The reason is because it is well-integrated with Amazon S3 (and other Amazon Web Services). If you are not aware, Amazon S3 is a cloud storage services provided by Amazon that allows you to save a great amount of files for cheap. You can use Amazon S3 to backup your personal files or to store your web content such as images and videos. There is no monthly charge and you only pay for what you use, so you don’t have to worry about any long term commitment.
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3 Ways To Backup User Profile In Windows 7
By | June 11, 2011 | 5 Comments
If you are a Windows 7 user and have gone through the C drive, you’ll have probably seen a folder called Users. This Users folder stores all your user profiles, which includes all your settings and user data.
Since your user profile has all your important documents and settings, it makes sense to back up a copy so that if your PC crashes, you can easily restore back the settings. However, you can not back up the user profile folder by just copying the folder to a safe place because it will always be in use when you’re logged in. There is a risk that files are not copied properly and leads to data loss.
There are several methods by which we can backup the complete user profile.
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How to Restore Your iTunes Library with Your iPod, Flash Drives and CD’s
By | June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Few things are more devastating to a media fan than having something happen to their iTunes library. After all, iTunes is the home to all of your music, your TV shows and your movies. Losing all of that data in (an admittedly rare) system crash, or when your external hard drive is inadvertently melted by the heater can be a traumatic, not to mention an expensive experience. The thought of having to replace the entirety of an iTunes library is enough to turn many users to thoughts of violence. So, rather than having that aneurism, let’s try to recover as much of your missing iTunes library as is possible, without having to pay for extra software costs.
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5 More Intriguing KDE Apps
By | March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Ever so often, I take a stroll over to KDE-Apps.org and look at some of the fantastic creations people from the KDE community develop. There are a wide range of apps in nearly every category, but I have selected 5 that stand out and would be very useful additions to my desktop and hopefully yours too. All of these apps are either new or have been recently updated within the past few months.
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Titanium Backup: The Best Backup App For Android Power Users
By | March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Not all applications that are available on the Android market are free of charge. Some of the more useful apps can be had for a price. If you’re an Android power user, you’ve probably invested your fair share of money on higher end applications which may include any number of powerful utilities for your phone. Like any other customer, you want to make sure to protect your investment. In the case of your applications, it would mean backing all of them up. Although there are a variety of ways to do this, one of the best methods involves using Titanium Backup, available on the Android Market.
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Deja Dup Makes Backup A Simple Task [Linux]
By | March 17, 2011 | 4 Comments
There are plenty of backup options in Linux. We have covered a few here, namely, back in time, AptOnCD, and Rsync. Deja Dup Backup is yet another backup tool, except that it turns the whole complicated backup process into kid stuff.
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