A timely warning - it's always a good idea to have important data in
several places. With the amount of free web hosting around, that shouldn't
be too difficult. I use Dropbox and Evernote daily, and I'd hate to see
either of these disappear, but if they do, I have data backed up
elsewhere.
A little different, but related, is the issue of backing up your own
computer. Lots of people in the Victorian bushfires (and others) told how
they had backed up their family photos and other important data - but the
backup drive was sitting next to the computer when the fires hit. The only
way to do this safely is to buy two external drives, and put them in
different places, e.g. work and home, and backup as often as you can.
Of course, if half your bird records are still in dozens of notebooks
awaiting digitising, like mine, then I guess your goose is cooked, so to
speak ...
Russell
On Thu, September 1, 2011 5:58 pm, Dave Torr wrote:
> Unfortunately websites come and go - it takes money (and passion!) to keep
> a
> website up and running, and there have been many instances (not in the
> birding field) where one or other runs out. I guess sites run by
> "organisations" are less likely to go under than those run by individuals
> (and I don't know who ran this site) but even then I would never entrust
> my
> data solely to a website!
>
> Of course it may be a slight technical problem which can sometimes take a
> day or more to fix, so worth trying again in a day or two I guess.
>
> On 1 September 2011 17:24, Peter Ewin <> wrote:
>
>>
>> Bert,
>> I have looked at Travelling Birder over the last few days and it just
>> comes
>> up with amessage saying that the Domain is hosted by UnoEuro.com. Links
>> to
>> any of the existing reports which I have bookmarked don't work any more.
>> It
>> may be that the website has been shut down which would be a shame as it
>> is a
>> very useful website for looking at recent trip reports.
>> At one stage last year the website was hacked by a group who appeared to
>> randomly select sites that had Israel within their contact and give you
>> a
>> message when entering. I contacted the moderator at the time and they
>> were
>> aware of it and eventually fixed it a couple of days later. Not certain
>> if I
>> have the correspondence but will have a look and see if I can track it
>> down
>> and contact them again.
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>> > Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:42:19 +0930
>> > From:
>> > To:
>> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Travelling Birder trip report website down?
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Does anyone know what has happened to the Travelling Birder website? I
>> have
>> > not been able to access it for over a week now. Does anyone have
>> contact
>> > details for someone who works with TB?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Bert Harris, Adelaide
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