I have a set I rules I follow when computing. The first three are backup, backup, and backup. This poor lady came to my computer users group with a external harddrive that was not functioning. I took a look at it. When I plugged it in to the power it started click loudly.
Posts Tagged ‘backup’
Jungle Disk
Posted: February 20, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: Amazon, backup, cloud, cloud-computing, Jungle Disk, S3, Software, storage
Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 ™ Storage Service. S3 does not have an application So Jungle Disk provides you with one. Jungle Disk creates a network drive in your computer and you just drag folder and files over or you can setup an [...]
Carbonite
Posted: February 12, 2010 in SoftwareTags: backup, Carbonite, cloud, cloud-computing, storage
Carbonite is an online data backup solution. I’ve been using Carbonite to backup the data on my desktop for a years because of the price and all the data you want for $54.95 per year per computer. I have a lot of MP3s and photos to back and the all you can eat pricing is [...]
Gmail Uploader
Posted: February 8, 2010 in GoogleTags: backup, cloud, Gmail, storage, web, web 2.0, web apps
Have you recently moved to Gmail but still have a most of your contacts and all of your Email still in a program like Outlook on your Windows computer. The Google Email Uploader is what you need. The Gmail Uploader will take those contacts and messages preserving your folder structure and import them right into [...]
Build A Home Server
Posted: January 29, 2010 in HardwareTags: backup, home server, NAS, opensource, server, storage
As I say constantly, “The three most important maintenance task on your computer are, backup, backup and backup.” You can always restore your software or replace your computer in a worst case scenario. What you can’t do or can’t do easily is recover your data. This is what you want to spend most of effort [...]
Backup Your Cloud
Posted: December 30, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: backup, cloud, cloud-computing, tip, web 2.0
Backupify is one of the coolest services that I have seen. Backup all of your online life in one place. Enter all of your cloud accounts (Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress sites, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogger, Hotmail and coming soon Youtube, Xmarks and Tumblr) and Backupify will backup your data on [...]
Cloud Storage Overview
Posted: March 2, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: backup, cloud, cloud-computing, web 2.0
Here’s a list of services that will store store your files online. GMail- Send yourself important files as email attachment to a GMail account or use GMAil Drive to create a webased drive on your computer. >7GB/ FREE SkyDrive- 25GB of online Storage. FREE ADive- 50GB FREE Amazon S3- Unlimited storage for a very small [...]
Called “Skydrive” a part of Microsoft’s “Windows Live” it allows you to store and share up to 25GB of data (documents, photos and other media files). “Windows Live Photo Gallery” syncs automatically to Skydrive which is terrific. What I am a very disappointed by; there is no method to transfer other files by a desktop [...]
