“It may look old and unused, but this is where they are kept.”

“You better be right, Sargent. It has taken us a long time not only to find this place but also to get here. Our troops need to rest tonight. I recommend we rest and plan our attack in the morning.”

***

12 hours later.

“We’re lucky to have found somewhere they think it is safe to store their data. Most of them never think twice about losing everything. Not everything is safe, but they should have done all they could to keep it safe and secure. The troops are ready, Commander.”

‘Good. On my command, we will begin the attack and wipe out most of the world of blogging from the face of this planet. We may be small and invisible to most, Sargent. Still, we are evolving and becoming more resilient against whatever virus software they throw at us.”

“Commander, let us hope that not many of them have ever backed up their blogs. And of those that do, let us hope they did it once and then forgot to do any further backups. Troops, on my command, let us attack and infect WordPress. ATTACK!”


Written in response to the #writephoto challenge hosted by Sue Vincent at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo.

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56 responses to “A Safe Place For Keeping #flashfiction”

  1. Sue Vincent avatar

    Brilliant, Hugh…and a good reminder too ;)

    1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

      Thanks, Sue. The photo you provided was the perfect prompt for reminding everyone.

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  2. samfiftysomething avatar

    Very clever and a definite ‘I need to do this!’ from me Eek! Now to go to your earlier reply to a comment showing the ‘How To’ :-) Thanks!!

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  3. joarosetintedworld avatar

    Oooh, theres a thought. Haven’t done mine for ages. Thank you for the reminder…

  4. The Cheesesellers Wife avatar

    EEEEEK, have gone to find out how to back up…..

    1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

      Good to hear. Just remember to do a backup at least once a month.

  5. Terry Tyler avatar
    Terry Tyler

    This is very clever, Hugh!

    1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

      Thank you, Terry. Seemed like the perfect writing prompt to remind people to back up their work.

  6. Colleen M. Chesebro avatar

    I’m on the business plan, Hugh. I better check this out! Thanks for the reminder! LOL! 😍

    1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

      I’m also on the business plan, Colleen, but still perform a monthly backup of my blog.

      1. Colleen M. Chesebro avatar

        Do you use a plugin for that Hugh?

        1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

          I use the ‘Export’ tool on the dashboard of my blog.

          1. Colleen M. Chesebro avatar

            Many thanks, Hugh. You’re the best. <3

  7. dgkaye avatar

    Okay, that was scary, lol :) x

    1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

      Scary enough, I hope, to have you check that your backups are being performed?

  8. Natalie avatar

    Thank you for the reminder, Hugh. I do monthly back up for my blog. Your story and the photo go very well together. #senisal

    1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

      You’re welcome, Natalie. I’m glad to hear that you’re performing a monthly backup of your blog.

      1. Natalie avatar

        I usually write a monthly wrap-up post and so I use the same date to do my blog back-up, a way to help me remember :)

        1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

          That sounds perfect, Natalie.

  9. Prior... avatar

    This is such a great reminder to back up blog material – once in a while I think about this – like of the WP servers became fried.
    I think about it with other cloud services too. And I heard that many of the big server farms now being used were built about ten years ago – what happens when they age? I am sure the tech folks have this all Covered – but makes me want to print a handful
    Of my favs each year – just to have some hard copies as well. Oh and also back up all my stuff regularly

    1. Hugh's Views and News avatar

      It’s better to be safe than sorry. You’re right that even the places our backup files are kept may break or become redundant. That’s why it’s useful to backup material to more than one place. I use iCloud to back up a lot of stuff. Hopefully, the folk behind iCloud will keep upgrading the software to ensure all my hard work is safe and secure. However, one never knows, do they? I do sleep better knowing that I have backed up everything, though.

      1. Prior... avatar

        Well In my opinion – the powers that be will keep backing up their servers – which make up the cloud – because their is huge money and power in having access to everyone’s files and then charging them to hold onto it for them in their “cloud”

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