Free online backups for home use
Just a quick note this morning to remind everyone to make sure that you’re making plenty of backups of your data. I’m a bit paranoid when it comes to data loss, so I like to take extra precautions. Since all of our computers are macs every machine here has an external drive attached for using Apple’s Time Machine to make automatic backups. I also archive my data to a shared location on the network. The only problem with either of these approaches (as implemented) is that it doesn’t get the data offsite. To solve that problem, I’ve been using Mozy for the last two months. Mozy offers 2GB of free online storage for home use per account. It’s not enough to back up everything, but it goes a long way to backup my most important or timely documents. I may consider upgrading my account and pay the $4.95 a month to get unlimited storage.
I haven’t tried the Windows client so I can’t vouch for it, but so far the Mac client has worked with no problems.
::Full Disclosure::
And if you decide to try it out I’d appreciate it if you used my link here. It’s a referral program and I get an extra 256MB of space for each person that signs up through the link. For a short time, their bumping that up to 512MB per sign up, so I thought I’d plug the product here and maybe earn myself a bit of extra backup storage!
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November 2, 2008 2:53 pm
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By Paul Brahler, November 13, 2008 @ 6:26 pm
Found something interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM.
By Paul Brahler, December 4, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
Found something more interesting. Man I am getting old!
By Jeff, December 4, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Dude, you should post this stuff to your blog! Then we would have something to look at when we go there! And write about life in LA or something! Let us know how things are going.
By Paul Brahler, December 4, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
Sorry. Guess I never learn do I. You can always delete my junk from hear when you want. That is what everyone else on the net does! *grin*
By Paul Brahler, December 4, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
…at least I am not as bad as my djRolla days! *rolls eyes*
By Jeff, December 4, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
No problem at all, at least we know you’re still alive out there… I’m just saying that this would be a great way to contribute to your own blog. You might take a look at using Facebook and Twitter as well. Very complimentary services.
By Paul Brahler, December 4, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
I follow your Twitter page from day to day but I don’t totaly understand it. Seems to be made up of little mini post or should I say ‘quick comments’. Some come out of nowhere! Oh I might loss control again with something like that! LOL! Facebook I heard is very popular these days. Might take a look.