Friendly reminder -- BACK UP YOUR HOME COMPUTER
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Friendly reminder -- BACK UP YOUR HOME COMPUTER
In the past week I have had two different friends come to me in a panic about losing everything on their home system. People spend a little money and get a reputable offsite backup of your data. Unless you have a ton of data this doesn't cost you much per year. Use either of these two, Mozy preferred by our company. There are a multitude of other good options as well. Chump change per month to keep your stuff safe.
http://mozy.com/product/mozy/personal
http://www.carbonite.com/backup/pricing-plans/personal-plans
In addition to offsite buy an external USB hard drive and use Time Machine on a Mac or the builtin Windows Backup to do disk to disk backups of your systems. These are both super simple to setup.
Time Machine setup http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Windows Backup http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/set-change-automatic-backup-settings#1TC=windows-7
http://mozy.com/product/mozy/personal
http://www.carbonite.com/backup/pricing-plans/personal-plans
In addition to offsite buy an external USB hard drive and use Time Machine on a Mac or the builtin Windows Backup to do disk to disk backups of your systems. These are both super simple to setup.
Time Machine setup http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Windows Backup http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/set-change-automatic-backup-settings#1TC=windows-7
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I keep all photos and videos backed up on a 1TB external hard drive on about a quarterly basis. It would suck to lose 10 years worth of photos.
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mine is going to the shop today. Pictures on it from the last 10 yrs. I am hoping for the best. I will definitely do this when it returns.
There will be a day....
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You don't want to have to use these guys, it's pricey. But i have for work in the past with good results.
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/
I had an external disk of nothing but music crash (500gig or music ~ 30K songs) and they quoted me $500 to recover it.
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/
I had an external disk of nothing but music crash (500gig or music ~ 30K songs) and they quoted me $500 to recover it.
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- rjohnson
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Or you can always just store everything in cloud for the cost of a 12 pack each month. Dropbox just increased their storage for $9.99 a month from 100 GB to 1 TB.
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/dropboxs-plan-to-stay-relevant/
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/dropboxs-plan-to-stay-relevant/
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I use carbonite. They have a mobile app that I can use to access my pc if need be
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I'm listening now! And thank you Ronnie!
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I need to subscribe to a PC backup plan. Is there any new info to add to the posts below? Are Mozy and Carbonite still good choices? Thanks in advance.
Scott Baker
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"Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop" -Augustus McRae
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Yeah, if it's mechanical it's bound to fail eventually. Then there is always the risk of fire etc...
I backup to an external drive as well as a storage PC, then offsite.
I backup to an external drive as well as a storage PC, then offsite.
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