Many years ago I wrote some backup software. It ran under Minix, and it wrote to floppies; lots of them. I've rewritten and enhanced, and rewritten again this same thing probably at least a dozen times. I've learned two things from it: First, backups are really hard to do correctly, and second, this is a really good problem for learning a new programming language.

The current version lives in Scala, and it's probably going to stay that way for a while. Scala, by far, is the best combination of language features I've run across.

I hope to use this blog to talk about both programming languages, as well as backup software, and possibly throw a little jazz in here and there.