Well, I’ve fixed the image problem – but it makes it much lower resolution than I wanted to use… so I’m guessing that some php learning is required… can anyone recommend a good “php for dummies” style book?

btw – I know that php for dummies is an actual book – I’m after other suggestions!!

Well, unless I can work this out, it seems that my install image has kinda bust the blog…. or the blogroll at least!! The width of the image seems to have pushed all the blogroll stuff to the very bottom – as the “central colum” isn’t wide enough to fit it all in….. I’m going to try resizing the image – but I guess I’m going to have to learn some php and work out how to make the colums resize on the fly / automagically…. or even just learn how to make it bigger full stop!!

The Gimp seems pretty good for this sort of stuff – but I’m a total novice with it…. so the image sould get a little fubar’d before I’m through!!

I’ve also just downloaded the Beta of the SyncToy powertoy from Microsoft.

From what I’ve read, it’s designed to keep folders synchronized between machines – so I should be able to sync my photo’s from my PC to my laptop at home for example. I’m currently using SyncBackSE to do this – but the scheduled task only runs once a day – I’ll be very interested if there’s a “real-time” option for this tool – so as I add new photo’s, they’re replicated either straight away – or at least as soon as the machine becomes available – that’s be REALLY nice. If it’s not an option yet, and there’s someone from the team that built it listening – please add it to the wishlist for version 2??

Well, after a week or so of running SyncBackSE at home to backup my PC and Laptop. I have to say that I’m very impressed. The software is an absolute doddle to install and configure, the backups are reliable (as far as I can see anyway….) and the performance hit is non-existant (partly as all the backups run at about 3am when I’m fast asleep!!)

It took me all of 20 minutes to configure about 7 different backups / synch jobs to ensure that I have multiple copies of all my key data – spread across multiple spindles and kept in sync automagically.

I’ve not really tried the advanced options like AES encryption or FTP as everything is on my LAN at the moment – but I may well have a play with it to backup this site each night.

I’d really like a feature to allow me to keep multiple backups – on a weekly or monthly basis, so I backup this site nightly – but the software automatically puts the files in a folder based on date / day of the week / some other criteria I specify and clears down old copies on a schedule I specify as well….. e.g. A folder structure like this:

Backups
······Data
·········Blog
··················1
··················2
··················3
··················etc.
············OfficeDocs
············Website
··················1
··················2
··················3
··················etc.
······Music
······Photos
······Profiles

Now that’d be cool…… you could keep a rolling month or week of backups – and roll back to any given point of time you chose.

On the whole though, for the price, I have to say that I’m extremely impressed.