This week’s guest contributor is Confident Marketer Sue Painter, but first a brief update from Yours Truly. The Ur-Guru and I have been traveling a lot over the past few weeks. As an incurable geek, I haul my laptop with me on all these trips, and I’ve been bringing Vesta (the Buffalo MiniStation DataVault) with me to make backups on. In fact, Vesta lives in my laptop case, since I don’t really … [Read more...]
Jumping on the Online Backup Bandwagon: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 04-25-08
Everyone seems to be jumping on the online backup bandwagon these days. Enterprise software giant EMC bought SOHO online backup provider Mozy a while back. Now EMC is flogging Mozy Enterprise for all it's worth. I've received links to no fewer than four white papers about Mozy Enterprise, the first of which boasts a provocative title: “You're Not as Backed Up as You Think.” EMC is coming late to … [Read more...]
The Hard Drive in the Sky: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 02-29-08
Seems like everyone's talking about backup these days. Last week it was Marketing Over Coffee; this week it's Morning Announcements from Dave Jackson's School of Podcasting. Dave had a sudden realization: if he didn't save the uncompressed (WAV) version of his audio files, he would never be able to re-edit the episodes into an audio book and sell it the way Grammar Girl is. The problem with … [Read more...]
How do YOU Back up Your Computer? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-28-07
Here it is the end of another year of backups—almost time to make those special year-end copies of your important data to store with your tax records. I thought I’d do something a bit different for today’s column, so I put a question out to my LinkedIn network asking the people I know what they do for backups. (And no, this is not what “networked backups” means.) Most of the answers came as … [Read more...]