{"id":22,"date":"2006-04-08T14:06:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-04-08T14:06:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-08T19:06:38","slug":"cobain-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2006\/04\/08\/cobain-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobain Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/cobainbackup.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">I just automated all my backups using a FREE backup program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educ.umu.se\/~cobian\/cobianbackup.htm\">Cobain Backup<\/a>.\u00a0 I used an XP machine with a few hundred free gigabytes of hard drive space.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same machine I use to stream TV to the rest of the house.\u00a0 From this one machine I backup my desktop machine, my server and my laptop.\u00a0 The backup task is scheduled for the wee hours of the night (Cobain runs as a service).\u00a0 On the first night it does a full backup and for the next six days it does incremental backups.\u00a0 The next week, it starts fresh with a full backup.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">On top of copying all my files to this XP machine, Cobain also zip\u2019s the files into password protected archives\u00a0using strong encryption (Blowfish, Rijndael or DES).\u00a0 Each archive is also chopped into 4.7 GB pieces so they will each fit on one DVD.\u00a0 There are also filters to include\/exclude certain file types in the archive.\u00a0 For instance, I didn\u2019t want all the podcast files on my computer to be backed up, so I filtered out all files with the MP3 extension.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">It\u2019s pretty slick for free software. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just automated all my backups using a FREE backup program called Cobain Backup.\u00a0 I used an XP machine with a few hundred free gigabytes of hard drive space.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same machine I use to stream TV to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2006\/04\/08\/cobain-backup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}