Right, let’s cut to the chase. RIM – you’re current backup system for the PlayBook is inadequate. There, I got it off my chest. But it had to be said. As you can probably see from this blog – I like BlackBerry. It does what I want it to do most of the time. I [...]

I’ve been setting up a new backup regime on a hosted server that I’m helping to maintain. One of the key issues right now is that it is there isn’t a solid provided backup regime, so I’ve spent the day playing around with different Linux backup solutions trying to get to the bottom of a [...]

I had a shocking error of judgement this morning when I accidentally deleted some of my son’s photos from his toy digital camera. They were sitting on my desktop, and I was on a cleanup… These were a casualty of my cleanup-fest and obsession with the shift key. Thinking on a Windows vein – I [...]

Lately, I have been having trouble backing up MS SQL 2000 files with ntbackup – running on Windows Server 2000. As it happens, there is an easy way to deal with this. By modifying the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine to 1, backup will deal with each file – even if it is in use! Of course, [...]