Backup on Lin's Blog

Backing Up All Your Google Docs Files with GDocBackup

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:30:16 +0000

Like many people, I’m used to handling documents and reports in Google Docs, and over time it piles up a lot of material. So what if one day you want to back up all your Google Docs files to your computer? Google Docs doesn’t offer an export service, only downloads. If you have just a few files, you can download them one by one, but if you have a lot, it gets to be a real hassle. Here I recommend a program called GDocBackup.

Google Takeout: One-Click Backup of Your Google Picasa, Contacts, Google Plus, and More

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:07:31 +0000

I have a habit: every new year, I back up all my data, so I won’t regret it if my computer ever breaks and all my files disappear. Google Takeout, which I’m introducing today, is a backup service provided by Google. You can download the backed-up files to your own computer. Most importantly, since it’s a service provided by Google itself, you don’t have to worry about your account data falling into third-party hands!

Manually Backing Up and Restoring a Database with phpMyAdmin

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:11:08 +0000

In this post, I’ll show you how to back up and restore a database by hand. If you know a bit about building websites, you know you should back up your database regularly, because almost all of a website’s data is stored in the database. But how many people actually back up their databases? Most people learn to build websites from so-called “ten-minute website” books, and those usually don’t go into any depth, so plenty of people don’t know how to back up a database. So here I’m going to show everyone how to back up a database by hand (a MySQL database).