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After the disaster with the Ukraine hosting data center hosting.ua I started thinking about backup options for my own dedicated server that I use to host yepcorp.com and dozens of my other projects and a few clients' sites. So far it has been a plain backup on the second drive, but this accident showed that even having a hosting company do backups in the same building is not really a safe solution.

What is work? A job you do every day? If you try to decompose it into smaller pieces, what will you get in the end?

Finally I was able to get CVS account on Drupal.org to submit my own modules. First time I tried to apply for it with seo_links module, but application was declined 'cos of poor quality of code.

This time I was able to fix all issues with new module Time Limit and finally got approval to upload it to CVS.

Sometimes I need to move old data from a client's legacy site. Last time it was MS Access.. 96 Mb of CVS data =)

Here is how I managed to import all of this:

1) First thing I did - I imported CSV files as tables into the same DB which the Drupal site uses. This would simplify working with it and in case something would be forgotten you could always import this back. And once you are sure that all data is in place - just dump the imported tables.