{"id":1274,"date":"2005-08-30T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T19:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2005-08-30T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T19:43:11","slug":"the-sods-of-the-copybook-headings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"The sods of the copybook headings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have just learned something interesting. If you are going to make backups onto <span class=\"caps\">CD, <\/span>it&#8217;s not enough to make them regularly, keep backups of the backups, and so on: it&#8217;s also important not to use cheap bulk CDs. I just had occasion to go through a whole stack of backups from the years 1999 and 2000. Of the twenty or so disks I had made, three were still readable in their entirety: the ones made by Hewlett-Packard. All the ones labelled &#8220;Targa&#8221;, that I had picked up cheap, feeling clever, are riddled with errors.<\/p>\n\n<p>So, if you need the data, pay good money for good disks. If you don&#8217;t need the data, why are you saving it?<\/p>\n\n<p>The other lesson, as pointed outmany years ago by Rupert, is to use zip as your only backup format. I have about 120gb of backups made, carefully, devoutly, under Windows 98, in a format which can&#8217;t be read by any later operating system. Aren&#8217;t computers wonderful?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have just learned something interesting. If you are going to make backups onto <span class=\"caps\">CD, <\/span>it&#8217;s not enough to make them regularly, keep backups of the backups, and so on: it&#8217;s also important not to use cheap bulk CDs. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}