Comments on: Have You Backed Your Files Up Lately?

By: dad

dad — Sat, 26 May 2007 04:34:57 +0000

Sadly, Carbonite seems to be for computers using Windows only.

Those of us inhabiting other ecosystems will have to look elsewhere.

By: VAB

VAB — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:21:42 +0000

I don’t want to sound like I’m on the payroll, but I can’t tell you how simple and secure life has become since I started using carbonite.com for my backup. You install it once and then you never think about backup again. My entire city could be taken out by an atom bomb and I’d be able to get at my data right up to the moment of the white flash from any old Internet cafe anywhere else in the world.

By: Bonnie Ventura

Bonnie Ventura — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:16:37 +0000

In addition to having a separate backup computer in one’s house, it’s also a good idea to have a backup in another location. Many people and businesses lost all their data in the Hurricane Katrina flooding because they didn’t have backups of it anywhere else.

I recently built a free mirror site on Angelfire for my fanfic stories, just in case anything catastrophic happened to the computers in my house (fire, tornado, whatever). Not that the stories have any particular value, but I’d be unhappy if I lost them.

By: Club 166

Club 166 — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:28:15 +0000

Backup?

You mean I’m actually supposed to back stuff up?

Thanks for the reminder. I’ll get around to it soon. Really I will.

By: MumIsThinking

MumIsThinking — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:18:46 +0000

Thanks for two things:

1. reminding me why it’s so important to backup

2. a reason to finally find out the origins of the phrase “Bob’s your uncle” I always wondered where that came from See http://tafkac.org/language/etymology/bobs_your_uncle.html