http://www.wroolie.co.uk/2010/02/15/importance-of-back-ups/ The Eric Wroolie Blog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.wroolie.co.uk/2010/02/15/importance-of-back-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-1557 Edward Sheldon Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.wroolie.co.uk/2010/02/15/importance-of-back-ups/#comment-1557 Hey Eric, I never usually plug commercial stuff because I know that there is always somebody who will say what I use is not as good as what they use. I just use a few core apps that work for me.When I left the UK a couple of years ago I had almost everything I owned in a shipping container that would not be opened for months. It was packed when we sold up but I continued working for a couple more months at Paribas and then took 6 weeks to hit New Zealand followed by about a month to find a house to rent and get it all delivered.I wanted to be doubley, tripley and quadrupily sure that at least a core of about 50GB or so family photos etc would not be gone forever in a perfect storm of my shipping container lost to pirates, my laptop getting stolen and my portable hard drive giving up the ghost.A service I engaged and continue to use is iDrive. I pay USD49.95 every year and that gives me up to 150GB of storage on the net. The backup client is great. I can time when it kicks into action or set it to continuous. It can also back up folders on network drives. It can keep historical versions of files and do partial updates as well as using pre-compression to save bandwidth. On top of all that I can get back any of my files or folders from any browser via their web access. It is owned by AOL so they should be around for a while.It might be a partial solution to your immediate concerns.Later dude, from down under.EdwardPS. When are you coming to visit. We have plenty of room. Hey Eric, I never usually plug commercial stuff because I know that there is always somebody who will say what I use is not as good as what they use. I just use a few core apps that work for me.When I left the UK a couple of years ago I had almost everything I owned in a shipping container that would not be opened for months. It was packed when we sold up but I continued working for a couple more months at Paribas and then took 6 weeks to hit New Zealand followed by about a month to find a house to rent and get it all delivered.I wanted to be doubley, tripley and quadrupily sure that at least a core of about 50GB or so family photos etc would not be gone forever in a perfect storm of my shipping container lost to pirates, my laptop getting stolen and my portable hard drive giving up the ghost.A service I engaged and continue to use is iDrive. I pay USD49.95 every year and that gives me up to 150GB of storage on the net. The backup client is great. I can time when it kicks into action or set it to continuous. It can also back up folders on network drives. It can keep historical versions of files and do partial updates as well as using pre-compression to save bandwidth. On top of all that I can get back any of my files or folders from any browser via their web access. It is owned by AOL so they should be around for a while.It might be a partial solution to your immediate concerns.Later dude, from down under.EdwardPS. When are you coming to visit. We have plenty of room.

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