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Backup Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 22nd

February 22, 2011 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

These are my links for February 3rd through February 22nd: Snapshot Backup « WordPress Plugins - PopDrive - GoodSync Pro (for Mac) Review & Rating | PCMag.com - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Bookmarks Tagged With: .MAC, backup, plugins, RAID, storage, WordPress

Backup Bookmarks for December 19th through January 21st

January 21, 2011 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

These are my links for December 19th through January 21st: Indestructible Portable Storage | News & Opinion | PCMag.com - Synology DS1511+ does the 3TB-per-drive dance, backs up most of your neighborhood -- Engadget - Iomega eGo Desktop Hard Drive, Mac Edition (2TB) Review & Rating | PCMag.com - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Bookmarks Tagged With: .MAC, backup, NAS, RAID, XHD

Quadruple the Backup from Buffalo

December 23, 2008 by Sallie Goetsch 3 Comments

Back in 2007, my BFF Jay Pechek sent me a bunch of Maxtor drives. Maxtor’s external hard drives are supposed to have a 5-year warranty, but there’s a little trick with this Free Stuff I get from PR people. When you don’t actually buy something, and don’t have a receipt, you can’t make use of the warranty in the ordinary way. Jay said “I’m your warranty; if anything goes wrong, call me.” Okay, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: External Drives, RAID Tagged With: Buffalo, Maxtor, RAID, reminder

FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 07-07-06: Geek Up for Backups

July 7, 2006 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Yesterday morning I got a message from my brother—the one who lost most of his photos to a hard drive crash a few months ago (05-19-06 Backup Reminder). Unlike many people who lose their data because they don’t have backups, he’s taken some action to make sure it doesn’t happen again. “Well, I really geeked it up this weekend in an effort to avoid future data loss from HD failure. I took an old … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Software, Network Storage Tagged With: Buffalo, FreeNAS, Karen's Replicator, Mirra Personal Server, RAID, SyncBack

Replacing Tapes with DVDs

August 16, 2005 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

In his August 15 post Rethinking backup, ZDNet's Paul Murphy suggests replacing standard tape drives with a combination of RAID array and DVD superdrive. "The cash savings are obvious but other things may be more important. For example, high quality DVDs outlast tapes, cost less, and require less storage space." It's true, people talk a lot about the 30 year shelf life of tape, and DVDs, like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CD & DVD Backups, Tape Backup Tagged With: DVD, Intelligent Disk Backup, RAID, ZDNet

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