Category: dataStorage

The Art of Discarding

I’m in the process of spring cleaning my house and am getting lots of inspiration from Marie Kondo’s “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” Her big message is that to truly achieve an organized home, one must discard all … Continue reading

Cloud Backup

I’m going to come right out and say that Dropbox is not a sufficient backup. If all you have are files in a Dropbox folder that are synced to the cloud, you should not consider your files to be backed … Continue reading

Test Your Backups

A lot of data management is about risk prevention and near the top of that list is having a good backup system (or two). But what I want to talk about today is that it’s not enough to have a … Continue reading

Wrapping Up A Project

Data managers talk a lot about doing data management before your project starts, but there is another important point in a project that is critical to data management: when a project ends. My recent post on managing thesis data got … Continue reading