make better backups

In all my backing up, drive imaging, backing up of backups, etc. before the Great Laptop Format, I knew I’d forget something: fonts! However, if that’s the only thing, I can deal with that.

I’ve been using Memeo and was loving it at first, but when I was bringing the laptop back up, it wouldn’t find the backups to restore them! I ended up having to manually move the files back over and do a search for all the Memeo files it created to delete them. And it’s supposed to be constantly monitoring for file changes, but it didn’t seem to be 100% reliable. So nevermind that program :\

I really love the Buffalo Linkstation. I haven’t had any problems with it since that blinking red light incident. Hopefully it’s redeemed itself. I’ve been using the backup utility that comes with Windows, honestly because I haven’t had a need for anything more than that yet. Just made sure that my email and documents and site stuff was all backed up before the trip this weekend. I don’t like taking my laptop over the border, but c’est la vie… kinda necessary in this case!