Everyone has files on their computer that they do not want to lose. It may be pictures, music, documents, or anything else that may have taken a while to create or collect. If you are not consistently backing these files up, you are running the risk of all your hard work getting lost or destroyed.
All it takes is for your hard drive to go out and that is it, unless you have a backup plan. What about the unexpected, like a fire, tornado, flood, or any other major catastrophe, we all hope it won’t happen, but it could. Do you have a disaster recovery plan in place to retrieve all your precious data when or if something like this happens.
A local backup to an external hard drive or DVD is great if your hard drive fails, but what if some other disaster strikes, then even your local backup copies could be destroyed. Now I am not try to scare you, but let’s face reality, it can and does happen quite frequently. If it does, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to recover all of your hard work, pictures of family and friends, music, and more.
There are many different online backup companies out there that provide a great service. You can simply install a small program and configure it to constantly monitor and backup your data automatically while you are connected to the internet. Some services will configure itself and then allow you to make changes to what you want backed up.
Most of these companies do not charge a lot for this type of service, especially when they offer you a physically secure and encrypted backup of all your data. We have become affiliated with a couple such companies. Mozy offers 2GB of backup for free and unlimited backup for only $4.95/Month/PC. Elephant Drive is another excellent choice, they also start at $4.95/MO. Elephant Drive does not have a free account, but they do offer a 15 day FREE TRIAL. Go ahead and try them out below.
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Thanks Jason,
This information is great. Never thought about backing up my system online before. It makes me feel more secure about my imporatant copywriting promos being saved. Hate to lose them. As always you give good advice and know what your talking about.
Thanks for looking out for me
Malisia
Backing up your data online is a key facet to a proper business continuity plan. Small businesses and managed service providers should, without delay, adopt online backup and recovery systems to preserve that most important business commodity: data.
Froggy IT is absolutely right to describe the benefits of online backup. Good work!
I’d like to personally recommend Mozy. I have been using them for over two years and cannot praise their service enough. I have a very large iTunes collection in addition to all my other files; Mozy takes care of it all for me.