[New Year’s Resolution] Backing up your data – the easy, automatic and online method

Filed under: Computing Tips - Dec 31 2007

Your computer’s hard drive stores all of your programs and all of the files, documents and pictures you’ve saved to it. It’s not a matter of ‘if’ your hard drive will fail, but ‘when’ will it fail? A hard drive is similar to a car engine in that it starts and stops, heats and cools, and spins at thousands of revolutions-per-minute for years on end. Eventually it will fail.

If you remember and have the time you can burn a CD/DVD of your data periodically, or you can use new online storage which makes backup easy, automatic, secure and fire-proof.

I use and recommend a service from Mozy.com that automatically backs up my data every day. My data is encrypted, sent over the internet, and stored on redundant hard drives in a fire-safe, earthquake proof data center located in Utah. They offer 2GB Totally Free Online Backup! Compliments of Mozy – or you can get unlimited storage for only $4.95/month.


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