Le 21 mai 07 à 10:32, Stephane Bortzmeyer a écrit :

> 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.

Hehe, we have slightly different ways of seing this kind of service.

>
> 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.

Sure. I follow your POV. And will do this backup ;)

Dave


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