This week we have a guest post from Sally Davison from Fire Science Degree. And a good thing, too, because I’ve been so swamped that I still haven’t had time to test the StarTech SATA drive USB dock. Online data storage is all the rage now; what with cloud service providers vying with one another to provide free storage for all your documents and other data, most people have moved all their … [Read more...]
Backup Blog Gets Coverage: Build My Home Computer
There’s a certain irony to this, because I’m a laptop-only person, so I’m not going to be building my own computer anytime soon, but last week Dave Wiebe of the Build My Home Computer site asked if he could interview me about backups. I agreed, and the resulting interview is now posted on his site. Dave also has his own page about backup. I didn’t reveal any deep, dark, never-before-mentioned … [Read more...]
Back Up Your Photos with SmugMug
Last week I had a good talk with some people from KineticD, and I’m still exploring their product, which you’ll hear about next week. This week, however, we’re going on a little detour, courtesy of an experience with a client yesterday. I was actually at the client’s house to work on other things (like adding Google Analytics to their Facebook pages), but while I was there, they asked me to check … [Read more...]
Too Late to Back Up?
Last week I got a call from someone whose name I won’t reveal but whose story should be a lesson to everyone reading this. The person in question is someone who uses her laptop continually, but doesn’t know that much about it. “My computer went black,” she said. “Totally black?” I asked. “No, it has white letters on it. It says ‘Operating system not found.’” “Oh,” I said intelligently. “That’s … [Read more...]
Dmailer Launches Free Online Backup Service to Compete with Mozy—But Not Without a Hitch
A couple of weeks ago a representative of Dmailer contacted me with information about their forthcoming, still-under-embargo release of a free version of their software that would also include 2 GB of free online storage. Because I have a bit of editorial backlog on this blog, it was not difficult to keep this news under wraps until after the official March 23rd announcement. Dmailer is a French … [Read more...]
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