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!

The Inaugural First Post on the new site!

Welcome to our family blog!  Here’s where we’ll be keeping everyone updated on all of our family happenings!  Things like our homeschooling adventures, raising the children, travels and various other personal tidbits that we want to share with you!

Check back in a week or so and watch as we get this ball rolling!

2003- The year that was…

Logan took second place in the Regional Spelling Bee… (on a whim, no less!)

Logan memorized the number pi to one hundred decimal places…

We abandoned the public school system in favor of homeschooling our children…

Xionic Technologies was founded as a Computer Security firm with a local focus…

CrazyAces Media Productions was formed as a graphics design outlet specializing in internet presence, logo generation and the promotion of local artists.

My six month contract with a downtown firm has turned into an ongoing commitment…

In march, we finally replaced our water heater (not by choice)…

We also replaced our washing machine. (also not by choice)

March 19 President Bush announced that the U.S. has begun its military campaign against the Iraqi government.

My computer collection saw the addition of a NeXTstation (complete w’ monitor and laser printer), a couple of Sun Ultrasparc I machines, a couple of old macintosh powerbooks and a beige G3 (happily running 10.2)

My niece Shannon and her husband Ryan welcomed Aiden into the world (and boy, he is growing like a weed!)

I spent a day with Rebuilding Together to help ‘rehabilitate’ a local family’s house. (this was definitely one of the more rewarding highlights of the year)

Ronan and Keenan celebrated their second birthday (and oh yes, the terrible two with twins is twice as bad as you would think!)

We went to our first Renaissance Faire which was quite interesting, and we’ll probably go again.

Faith and I did our first (her second) Body for Life competition. The results were not as good as we hoped, so Monday we start again!

In July, three transformers exploded at the Arch, causing a loss of power for my office and the surrounding buildings for most of the day. With all of the terrorist alerts, this was a bit more alarming than it usually would have been.

I had my first foray into mass transit. I spent two and half months riding the bus to and from work. Except for the extra time needed, it worked out quite well.

Logan and I went on our annual camping/canoe trip in august. This time we floated on the Gasconade river instead of the Meramec or its tributaries.

We took the family to Chicago for a weekend in November to visit relatives that we hadn’t seen in many years. December was the month of mishaps: A close-call with a fire (check those smoke alarms!), a water main break, ::ahem:: diaper artwork, Keenan falling off the chair.
It’s been an interesting year, and a good one at that.