{"id":421,"date":"2005-10-03T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=421"},"modified":"2005-10-03T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:22:49","slug":"backing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/backing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that I probably really should start backing up my documents on a semi-regular basis. Although I&#8217;ve had extraordinary luck with hard drives, I don&#8217;t expect any hard drive to last indefinitely, and I&#8217;d rather be safe than sorry. I decided to begin with my <em>Documents and Settings<\/em> folder on my laptop. I first tried backing up using 7zip, my preferred compression program. However, it immediately ran into errors with special Windows files inside of that directory. Not wanting to make a laborious process out of a simple backup, I turned to google, and found this little gem: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/using\/setup\/learnmore\/bott_03july14.mspx\">Windows XP Backup Made Easy<\/a>. And as the title suggests, the Windows XP backup utility actaully does make backing up easy. Now my entire <em>Documents and Settings<\/em> folder contents are safe. For now.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a capture of the backup in action:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/images\/WinXPBackup.png' alt='Backing up in Windows XP' \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up is backing up the content of SilverFir.net on a regular basis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that I probably really should start backing up my documents on a semi-regular basis. Although I&#8217;ve had extraordinary luck with hard drives, I don&#8217;t expect any hard drive to last indefinitely, and I&#8217;d rather be safe than sorry. I decided to begin with my Documents and Settings folder on my laptop. I first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,8],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-recommended","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}