Month: February 2014

  • I refuse to buy backup software

    So, I’m writing a powershell script that: Uses volume shadow service to take a backup of a directory Compresses the above backup using 7zip / whatever Time/Datestamps the compressed backup and copies it off-server to a given location Looks at the above location and deletes backup zips older than a given number of days (i.e. […]

  • One year today

    I wanted to write an eloquent status update reflecting my thoughts, beliefs, and status one year on. But I am so besieged with grief, and so incapacitated by regret that I cannot. Last night I walked his last journey from Lilac Ward Tolworth Hospital to the tree. It broke me that I could walk back, […]