Youtube is a great place to find information on technical issues that you have. You can find practically anything on it if you look hard enough. Recently, I looked for data backup alternatives so that I could back up my data off site, on remote servers and found a very good solution with Carbonite
But first, if you’re not backing Backing your data regularly, why not? Hard drives malfunction all the time, and if you are not backing up your data its only a matter of time before you lose it forever. One of the complaints that most people have backing up data is how tedious a process it is, swapping out DVDs or backing up to an external hard drive is not fun. Even for those of you who do backup your data onto DVDs or Hard drives are not guaranteed that your data will remain safe. For example, if your home burns down or someone burglars your home and steals your equipment, your backups are gone for ever and this is why backing up to an off site location is so important. The problem with off site data backup is that it is often out of most people’s financial reach, and that’s where company’s like Carbonite come in.
The Carbonite Online Backup method great for many reasons. First, it is an off site backup method, meaning that your data will be stored both locally on your machine and externally on the Carbonite servers. Secondly, it’s an automated process that backs up automatically, meaning that you don’t have to worry about finding DVDs, and going through that whole tedious weekly or daily process, best of all because Carbonite offers unlimited online backup service at a ridiculously affordable price, it’s within almost every-one’s budget. That means that for a small annual fee, your data will be safely and securely backed up using your online connection to your account on the Carbonite servers. All of your data is transferred using SSL technologies, meaning that data is transferred with 128 encryption technologies, and stored on multiple disks at their fireproof data centre. If and when your PC or harddisk dies, all you need to do is reinstall the carbonite software and restore all your information, seamlessly. Carbonite isn’t the only option available, but it is one of the best priced options, making it ideal for almost everyone.
Carbonite’s informative Youtube channel will show you how the process works, I highly recommend that you take a look at it if data backup is important to you. Follow the Carbonite link to their Youtube page to get an idea of the great service that they provide.
we use carbonite for our quickbooks backup. we also use an ioSafe as our external hard drive. it a super rugged fireproof waterproof hard drive safe to store all our pictures and music. i’m not sure how long it would take to get my 800 GB up to carbonite but i’m guessing it might years to upload. our dsl upload speeds suck!