Data Backup Day March Madness Contest!
For the next upcoming Data Backup Day – March 1, 2009 – create a post at your geneablog about either a data loss you experienced with your research data or what you’ve done to prevent data loss. One participating blogger’s name will be selected at random and awarded the following prize:
Kingston Data Traveler 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive*
http://tr.im/gAF6
I will order the flash drive from Amazon on Monday, March 2nd for delivery to the address specified by the winner.
* or comparable USB flash drive not to exceed $15 in value
Contest Rules:
- participants do not need to be a member of Geneabloggers Group on Facebook but they do need to author a genealogy or family history-related blog
- participants must create a blog post with Data Backup Day in the post title and describe their own data loss experience or steps they’ve taken to prevent data loss
- then add a comment here with a link back to your post
- winner will be selected at random using a web-based random name selection application
- winner will be notified via e-mail on Monday, March 2, 2009
- winner may make a substitution of any other USB flash drive (due to Windows vs. Mac OS, etc.) with value not to exceed $15 US
Check out the Geneabloggers Calendar for more information.

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Hello,
I have a WordPress blog. How do I back up a blog? So far I’ve been making sure I have Word Documents of the text from my posts but this is clearly starting to look insufficient now that I have about 70 multimedia posts (smile).
Evelyn
Over at Facebook Bootcamp for Geneabloggers, I posted about backing up with WordPress:
http://fbbootcamp.blogspot.com/2008/09/backing-up-your-blog.html
I will email this to you as well Evelyn. Thanks!
I made my data backup day post at http://elysesgenes.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-data-backup-day-plan.html
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I was planning to publish my data backup day post on the 28, but since Evelyn asked, and I covered that specifically for WordPress (an angle Thomas’ article doesn’t mention), I’ve turned it up now:
http://ambararabians.com/blog/2009/02/data-backup-daydata-backup-day/
Make that:
http://ambararabians.com/blog/2009/02/data-backup-day/
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I am in the middle of my backup-failure crisis right now. Here is my post: http://caroleriley.id.au/2009/02/25/data-backup-day/.
It is a nightmare I thought I would never find myself in.
This is an update backup post to one I did in August for a Geneablogger Carnival.
I had a backup lost back in the floppy disks days and was determined not to have that happen again!
Brenda
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Here’s my entry http://kbea831.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/data-backup-day/
I appreciate the reminder and incentive to have a backup plan.
Hi,
Here’s my post for the data back-up day: http://jessicagenejournal.blogspot.com/2009/02/data-back-up-day-my-experience-with.html
Here is my entry:
http://ftmuser.blogspot.com/2009/03/data-back-up-day-march-2009.html
This is a GREAT Reminder. Thank you.