Comments on: Backup Your Stuff http://www.365webapplications.com/2009/01/07/backup-applications/ Web Design and Business tips, reviews, and tools Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:05:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jason http://www.365webapplications.com/2009/01/07/backup-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Jason Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:10:23 +0000 http://www.365webapplications.com/?p=69#comment-69 Thanks Lou. I appreciate your comments. I've heard similar things by other people who now have backup setup. They love the confirmation that their information is backed up and that they don't have to worry about loosing hours, if not years, of work. Thanks Lou. I appreciate your comments. I’ve heard similar things by other people who now have backup setup. They love the confirmation that their information is backed up and that they don’t have to worry about loosing hours, if not years, of work.

]]> By: Lou Belsito http://www.365webapplications.com/2009/01/07/backup-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Lou Belsito Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:11:49 +0000 http://www.365webapplications.com/?p=69#comment-65 I’m a tangible kind of guy. I need to see and touch most of my things I buy and I would suspect there are many other people like me. An auto mechanic once told me that if he told a person that their steering linkage was about to go, they would put it off until the last moment risking their life and their passengers lives. But they would skip paying the bills for one month just to get those shinny new rims for the car. For some reason, showing off that new steering linkage just isn’t as cool as showing off those rims at the local corner. Well unfortunately, that’s how I treat my backup system. I can’t see it and I don’t use it (at least not yet) so why buy the hardware or software? Well I started to worry more and more at night just thinking, what if I lost my laptop? What if I crashed my hard drive? I wouldn’t know what to do. Like a lot of people, I work from home so I don’t have the “warm fuzzy” feeling that my company is backing everything up for me at night. I realized I needed to take action in order for me to get some sleep at night. After reading this blog, I decided to go with “Carbonite.” I love it. I’m finally getting some sleep!! Carbonite is a software that you download and install onto your computer. Depending on how much data you have, the first back-up could take a few days. No worries though, you can still use your PC during this initial back up. The cool thing about this type of back-up software is that once your back-up is done, it only backs up what has “changed” since the last back up. So there is no scheduled full back up that is constantly bogging down your PC. Once you open up a spread sheet, change it, then close it, it will then back it up online within a minute or two. So cool. Here’s the kicker for me. It puts little “green dots” by all of your file names that are currently backed up. Giving you assurance that you are good to go! If you open up a file and change it, it will then give you a “yellow dot” letting you know that it is scheduled for back up within the next few minutes. Neat hunh!! Once that dot turns “green,” its like that little rim shining back at you letting you know what you spent your money on! Makes me happy every time. I’m a tangible kind of guy. I need to see and touch most of my things I buy and I would suspect there are many other people like me.

An auto mechanic once told me that if he told a person that their steering linkage was about to go, they would put it off until the last moment risking their life and their passengers lives. But they would skip paying the bills for one month just to get those shinny new rims for the car. For some reason, showing off that new steering linkage just isn’t as cool as showing off those rims at the local corner.

Well unfortunately, that’s how I treat my backup system. I can’t see it and I don’t use it (at least not yet) so why buy the hardware or software?

Well I started to worry more and more at night just thinking, what if I lost my laptop? What if I crashed my hard drive? I wouldn’t know what to do. Like a lot of people, I work from home so I don’t have the “warm fuzzy” feeling that my company is backing everything up for me at night. I realized I needed to take action in order for me to get some sleep at night.

After reading this blog, I decided to go with “Carbonite.” I love it. I’m finally getting some sleep!! Carbonite is a software that you download and install onto your computer. Depending on how much data you have, the first back-up could take a few days. No worries though, you can still use your PC during this initial back up.

The cool thing about this type of back-up software is that once your back-up is done, it only backs up what has “changed” since the last back up. So there is no scheduled full back up that is constantly bogging down your PC. Once you open up a spread sheet, change it, then close it, it will then back it up online within a minute or two. So cool.

Here’s the kicker for me. It puts little “green dots” by all of your file names that are currently backed up. Giving you assurance that you are good to go! If you open up a file and change it, it will then give you a “yellow dot” letting you know that it is scheduled for back up within the next few minutes. Neat hunh!!

Once that dot turns “green,” its like that little rim shining back at you letting you know what you spent your money on!

Makes me happy every time.

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