And I've not seen a plethora of tools to upload the files so produced to something (or indeed anything) else.
I wouldn't describe that as a backup. It's a copy, perhaps, or an offline archive-with-potential (if you're a hacker).
And more fundamentally, they're solving the wrong problem. If LJ died tonight, access to my old posts would not be the thing I'd miss most.
Which isn't to say it's not worth doing. Though I do worry that the increased server load of everyone running backups is not a winning combo with sharply depleted (and deeply demoralised) tech staff.
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Date: 2009-01-06 08:58 pm (UTC)I wouldn't describe that as a backup. It's a copy, perhaps, or an offline archive-with-potential (if you're a hacker).
And more fundamentally, they're solving the wrong problem. If LJ died tonight, access to my old posts would not be the thing I'd miss most.
Which isn't to say it's not worth doing. Though I do worry that the increased server load of everyone running backups is not a winning combo with sharply depleted (and deeply demoralised) tech staff.