Comments on: The Best Ways To Back-Up Your Computer & Online Work

By: George Birbilis

George Birbilis — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:52:08 +0000

packrati.us is very nice, using it for @zoomicon on twitter, copying my links to delicious.com/birbilis and I’m very happy with it

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:56:11 +0000

Backup of files is very important. I use Sugarsync for my laptop (and then can access those files anywhere). My wife also uses Sugarsync which saved her when her hard drive crashed. I also use MS SyncToy to sync my directories to a backup, remote hard drive.

I use GDocBackup to backup my Google Documents and once a week I backup (export) my Google data (bookmarks, blogs, sites, and more).

Here’s some more info on backup and cloud storage – http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/cloud-file-storage-sync-backup.html

By: Andreas Kalt

Andreas Kalt — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:50:23 +0000

Thanks for those tipps.

Some questions worth asking, though: if a service like Blog Backupr or BackupUrl is free – who are the people running it? How do they fund their business? For how long will they be able to maintain a free service (which obviously costs them money?) and what happens when they realise they can’t make any money from it?

For backup of important files, I prefer paid services or local backup on an external dirve because when I backup I want to be sure I can restore that stuff again without relying on a web startup which might or might not be around anymore when something crashes.

One example of such a “disaster” is the social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia which basically went down in a technical failure taking with them ALL their users’ data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma.gnolia

For blogs, if you host with a provider, they should be able to tell you how their servers are backed up. If you host yourself on websapce, the provider for that should also be able to tell you that. If they don’t have a backup plan at hand, they’re not professional.

By: Beatriz

Beatriz — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:52:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. In the past few months the number of files I have seems to have increased enormously (I’m thinking Gizmo mixed with water -if you recall 1980s movies), particularly web-related stuff, and I was actually beginning to think seriously that I needed to find a way of backing up the info in some more dynamic way than a memory stick.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:08:41 +0000

I just got hit by my first computer virus and I can tell you it is a pain to get everything up and running again. I’ve spent hours just reformatting and reloading all my programs. All my links are gone and I never want to do this again.

I wish I had read your post before this all happened. I am going to check out these sites and I will let you know what worked out.

Great post. Keep them coming.

jim

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:18:49 +0000

Good post, I’ve been finding DropBox to be user friendly and reliable. I haven’t used it long enough to get a feel for it over time, but it is worth looking at.