Big Trev

One thing which has been on my mind recently, is backing up this Blog. I’ve got a lot of stuff on here I don’t want to lose, and the fact that I was getting random database errors this afternoon didn’t fill me with confidence.

Anyhoo, backing up Wordpress usually isn’t too much of an ordeal, except I obviously don’t have access to all the Good Stuff in the back-end of Blogsome’s setup. And from having a look through the forums, it looks like there’s a few solutions out there (none of which are very easy).

I found this page, which has what looks like a pretty nifty command you can use to basically do a static dump of a site to HTML files. So here ’tis:

wget -k -m -r http://url

I’ve run it on mine, so at least I have all the test from the site to keep for a rainy day.

There’s a nice little app I’ve been using for a few years called Keypass. It’s an open source thing, which you can use to encrypt and store all of your usernames and passwords. I started using it when I was still doing my midrange Windows engineer stuff, as I had passwords all over the place, and storing them on post-its and in excel spreadsheets wasn’t cutting it!

The page for the software is http://keepass.info/. It has versions for pretty much all operating systems, including PDAs and stuff (I mainly run it on my Windows Mobile device).

The theory behind it is that it’s easier to remember one really strong password, than a bunch of smaller more incecure passwords.

There’s also a plugin for Firefox apparently, which I’m going to have a play with! I also need to see if I can get it synching nicely between my phone and at home, but we’ll see how that goes.

(update) - the Linux port is available here: http://www.keepassx.org/. It’s even in the software repositories - keepassx.

I just plugged my Sandisk thumbdrive in, and it wouldn’t mount - light wasn’t coming on, no prompts onscreen, nothin’.

Did a bit of a search, and found a command which, when run from the terminal, made it come straight up. I don’t know what it does, or why it works, or if it will work for you, so your mileage may vary. But, here it is:

modprobe -r ehci-hcd