Health & Fitness
Back That Thing Up!!
Whether your a business owner or a single mother of two, we ALL need reliable and secure offsite backups. Sleep better at night knowing your data is safe and secure.
As I sit down to write this blog I feel compelled to start with, in my opinion, the single most important safeguard you can create for yourself…a reliable offsite backup system for your data.
Be honest, how many of you regularly back up your data? We’re hoping most of you. How many of you back it up to an external hard drive? Probably, some of you. How many of you back up your data and take it off site? Probably, very few of you.
Consider these scenarios. Your hard drive completely fails, as they commonly do, and even a computer guru (hmmm, hmmm, hmmm) cannot recover the data. A water line ruptures in your home and trashes your electronics. A natural disaster strikes and your computer no longer exists. Your precious family photos, important docs (think resume, taxes, etc), even the music you spent big bucks to download could all be gone in an instant. Think photos of your wedding and children’s births here and you’ll begin to get the idea of how important it is to back that thing up.
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In previous generations families had miles of bookshelves lined with photo albums that could be grabbed in an instant if necessary. Today our photos, with the exception of that treasured shot of Fido currently taped to the fridge, are likely all stored in that little black box on your desk. How much is keeping those memories safe worth to you? My wife, and likely yours, would say there is no cost too great. You might be surprised though at how economical the options really are.
Here are a few of our tried-and-true favorites for online, safe, secure backup.
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- Mozy.com – Prices start from $3.95 depending on the amount of Gigabytes you have.
- Carbonite.com – $59 a year (or $4.92 a month) for unlimited storage.
- Sugarsync.com – $24.95 for about 250GB of space.
- Amazons Cloud Drive – 5GB FREE, $20 for 20GB, $50 for 50GB, etc.
If you’ve already got a good offsite backup system in place, kudos to you. If you don’t and you’d like a little assistance in figuring out where to start, let Graemouse know. Please, please just take a few minutes to think about it and make sure your data is safe.
PJ Hanna
President
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