Oh, I was about to edit this but I now get a 404 error on the link. On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Link Dupont <link@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 14:47 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:40:11PM -0700, Link Dupont wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I've got a first draft up for part 1 of the Backing up series. > > > Please > > > read, follow and give me feedback. There are definitely areas that > > > can > > > be improved. > > > > > > Also, I don't want to publish until all three articles are done. I > > > need > > > to make sure that parts two and three (duply and deja-dup, > > > respectively) will work seamlessly with the backup created in part > > > one. > > > This may mean significant edits to this part one. > > > > > > Please provide feedback! > > > > > > https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17880&preview=true&preview_id=17880 > > > > The coverage of this article is absolutely spot-on. It's easy to > > follow and gives clear directions. > > > > I recommend you make a pass over it, though, and try to shorten and > > simplify sentences. A good rule of thumb is to minimize the use of > > the verb "to be," along with gerunds ("-ing" words). For example: > > > > FROM: "Backups are only as good as how often they are run. Backups > > need to be scheduled and run regularly in order to keep adding new > > data and pruning off old data." > > > > TO: "Backups only help if you run them often. Schedule and run them > > regularly to keep adding new data and prune off old data." > > > > This might seem nitpicky, but writing becomes stronger when you make > > sentences short, and use a declarative or commanding tone. Don't > > labor over it too long though! ;-) Do what you can and I'll be glad > > to > > help tune it later. > > > > -- > > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.or > > g/ > > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > > The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > g > > Perfect feedback. I'll give that a pass. Do you think there's too much > time spent on setting up AWS? I was thinking about a slight > restructuring of the article to focus more on duplicity, and leave most > of the AWS stuff up to the user. Basically writing the article assuming > that the user has their AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY > already and just telling them to plug them in. > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
