My last post was on the importance of password management. Another critical best practice when you deal with other peoples data is backups.

Since the beginning of the digital age retaining data for both the short and long term has become an open problem or sorts. Fortunately fragile bits are easy to copy but every type of media has a limited lifetime, especially hard disks. Coming up with the right balance to ensure retention is ...

Having a backup strategy is key. What works for me won't necessary work for you. I am going to outline my method for my own reference, to get feedback, and in the hope it might help someone else out there.

I am using Amazon S3 as my back-end, taking advantage of 10 GB for a year for free. I am abusing Fabric as my glue. Fabric is meant for remote execution but I am ...