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Home life - Backup your files!

Do you really want to loose years of digital pictures and other files?? You don't need to....

Loosing data does not have to happen and there are easy ways to backup your files over a broadband connection. And it is usually cheap or even free to boot.

Waident support small to mid sized business, but with todays technologies, people inevitably work from home and on the road. Because we support the users rather than just the technology, we often end up helping people outside of the office and their home machines. We see over and over again people at home (and yes even at the office...) having computer problems that end up trashing their hard drive, loosing years of files. It is VERY expensive to send the hard drive off site to recover data, so make your life easier, and sign up for a service to do this.

The Google directory below lists many vendors that provide an Internet file backup service.
http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Backup/

  • If you don't want to use a service, minimally, purchase a USB hard drive and use Windows Backup to copy your files to the USB drive on a weekly or monthly basis. Just set a calendar reminder to get it done. This is inexpensive, easy, and will save a lot of grief when your hard drive fails and you want to get back the years of digital pictures you had.
  • Use a hosted service. The advantage to this is that the files reside outside of the house. If there is ever a fire or flood, you still have your data available. This can be free only about $5 per month depending on how much data you are looking to backup.
There are many vendors providing a hosted backup service and more coming online daily, including Microsoft and Google. I've never used any of these services, but am considering it for my home computer. I have years worth of video and pictures of the kids that I don't want to loose if something ever happens to my house.

For businesses, we have used Intronis eSureIt (http://www.intronis.com/) and were impressed with the functionality and price point. 

Give me us call if you have you have any questions or comments about your backup needs.

September 2007
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