Comments on: Backup Your Computer Right Now

By: Jeremy Roe

Jeremy Roe — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:17:43 +0000

I’d really like to see something on this topic too. As if I don’t have enough to do already, I want to learn LaTeX so I can use more plaintxt in law school. Ah, footnotes.

By: Joshua Auriemma

Joshua Auriemma — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:53:56 +0000

@ouij, Good suggestion. I don’t know that anyone except us will be interested in such a post, but I’ll kick around the idea :p

By: Online Backups Review

Online Backups Review — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:45:04 +0000

I hope most students are backing up, but like you said, if you backup to a thumb drive and your laptop bag gets stolen, you lose both your data and your backup.

Pick a backup solution… look for the features that you need (do you need to synchronize amongst multiple computers? do you need to share files with others?). You should be able to find everything you’re looking for for $50 – $100 / month.

By: ouij

ouij — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:45:21 +0000

@Joshua Auriemma, Can we have a LaTeX for Lawyers post sometime this year? I’m dying to know if anyone has made the most recent revision of BibTeX work for Bluebook-style citations. If BibTeX could bluebook, then I would be a happy man–I could have tables of authorities in my own outlines!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:10:25 +0000

Amen to that. I’ve lost a hard drive twice since I’ve been in law school – the second time I was running Syncplicity and was back up and running with all my data on a new laptop the same day.

The nearly instantaneous backup also let me get rid of the flash drives I was constantly using to swap files between various computers. Folder sharing also allowed my moot court team to collaborate more effectively on our brief.

By: Backup Your Computer Right Now « SOLIS

Backup Your Computer Right Now « SOLIS — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:42:25 +0000

[...] on good material from other blogs, here’s another. Legal Geekery has a great post entitled Backup Your Computer Right Now. He recommends SugarSync. If you want a personal service, I’d recommend Mozy or DropBox [...]

By: Joshua Auriemma

Joshua Auriemma — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0000

@ouij, You can’t be a Luddite while outlining in TeX, man. That’s f’ing progressive. When I’m planning on selling my outlines, I always outline in TeX :D

By: Laura Bergus

Laura Bergus — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:51:52 +0000

I agree with backing up in the cloud – that way you can access from any computer with internet access. My school laptop died this week (classes start on Tuesday – yikes!) and thankfully I have everything in GoogleDocs and Dropbox. This way you don’t need any extra hardware to get back up and running. (Although Adam’s solution is best if you’re replacing an entire system, for sure! What a pain to reinstall all your software, remember all of your passwords and bookmarks, etc.)

By: ouij

ouij — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:45:13 +0000

As resident Luddite, let me just say: nibs & ink haven’t failed me yet. Outlines prepared with TeX are very small plain text files that I e-mail to my (effectively) limitless gmail account.

By: Jon Bartelson

Jon Bartelson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:17:40 +0000

Agreed. My online backup to the cloud has saved me more than once.