On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:48:20AM +0200,
David Sapiro - Pilot Systems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
a message of 509 lines which said:
> > Surely an excellent example of when you should be backing up your
> > own data?
>
> Well, not really: I try to rely as much as possible on online systems
> because I don't want to store and manage my data locally.
Manage it locally, OK, I understand, but *store* it locally is, IMHO,
a *must_do*. It is not only the risk of del.icio.us crashing and
losing data, it is also the risk of del.icio.us going bankrupt,
changing its policy, its business model, etc.
This is your data, trust noone with backing it up.
On Unix, the simple command-line:
wget -O bookmarks-at-delicious --http-user=ME \
--http-passwd=MYPASSWORD \
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all
is enough to store a complete copy locally. You can put this command
in cron and forget it afterwards, apart from random checks from time
to time.
