3 Antidotes to Human Stupidity
It’s not a question of if it will happen, but when. For me, I lost all my data about two weeks ago when my hard drive melted down. I very nearly lost it all, and had to rebuild quite a bit of data. Thankfully, I have a network of little safety devices that cover up my natural human stupidity. Here are three friendly tools within the grasp of any small business or nonprofit, which will help avert disaster:
- Mozy (http://mozy.com/). Fast and easy automatic online backup. There’s a limited free plan for individuals (great for e-mail), a cheap $5 plan for piles of space.
- Red Drive (http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/index.html). Directly access your Web files through Red Drive. It lets you bypass confusing FTP programs and let you treat an off-site storage place like any old drive.
- Any freemail account (such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail). Automatically cc your free webmail account on any outgoing message, and you’ll have a low-tech duplicate backup.
Tags: data backup, email, file storage, mozy, nonprofit, sme
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November 26th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
I’m Carbonite’s CEO, and I wanted to point out to your readers that there’s a big difference between automated backup services like Mozy and Carbonite and file-sharing services like Red Drive. If you’re going to be doing sharing of files on the Internet, almost by definition your files are not going to be encrypted. Backup applications are really about protecting your data – they just sit there in the background backing up new files. Collaboration applications don’t work that way – you have to manually drag files or folders into your “disk space in the cloud.†Collaboration and backup are really two different applications. A lot of people don’t realize that.
Regards,
Dave Friend, CEO, Carbonite Online Backup
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
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