http://www.kevingainey.com/online-backup/ technology & personal development Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kevingainey.com/online-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Lori Wed, 05 May 2010 18:01:42 +0000 http://www.kevingainey.com/?p=13#comment-30 I don't currently use an online service, mainly because the files I back up are huge and numerous. About 400G+ and growing daily. I also had my new computer hard drive crash in Feb. 2010 and it was only 3 months old. Luckily I was under warranty and they shipped me a new drive immediately. But oh the data I lost! Also because I know this is all too common, I had a 1.5 TB hard drive back up AND a 500G seagate free agent go drive where I had backed up all my photography files. Over 20,000 photos and digital scrapbook page files. I was able to recover all my files in a few hours at home onto my new drive and didn't lose one photo I had taken in the past 10 years. Thank goodness! I checked into Carbonite, but they said their avg. user backs up 25G at most. It would have taken me a couple weeks to redownload all the files I have for the volume....not sure about uploading. We also only have mid-speed internet. So for now, I'm still backing up to multiple hard drives at home. AND printing the most important photos so they'll never be lost! I don’t currently use an online service, mainly because the files I back up are huge and numerous. About 400G+ and growing daily. I also had my new computer hard drive crash in Feb. 2010 and it was only 3 months old. Luckily I was under warranty and they shipped me a new drive immediately. But oh the data I lost! Also because I know this is all too common, I had a 1.5 TB hard drive back up AND a 500G seagate free agent go drive where I had backed up all my photography files. Over 20,000 photos and digital scrapbook page files. I was able to recover all my files in a few hours at home onto my new drive and didn’t lose one photo I had taken in the past 10 years. Thank goodness! I checked into Carbonite, but they said their avg. user backs up 25G at most. It would have taken me a couple weeks to redownload all the files I have for the volume….not sure about uploading. We also only have mid-speed internet. So for now, I’m still backing up to multiple hard drives at home. AND printing the most important photos so they’ll never be lost!

]]> http://www.kevingainey.com/online-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Lori Wed, 05 May 2010 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.kevingainey.com/?p=13#comment-81 I don't currently use an online service, mainly because the files I back up are huge and numerous. About 400G+ and growing daily. I also had my new computer hard drive crash in Feb. 2010 and it was only 3 months old. Luckily I was under warranty and they shipped me a new drive immediately. But oh the data I lost! Also because I know this is all too common, I had a 1.5 TB hard drive back up AND a 500G seagate free agent go drive where I had backed up all my photography files. Over 20,000 photos and digital scrapbook page files. I was able to recover all my files in a few hours at home onto my new drive and didn't lose one photo I had taken in the past 10 years. Thank goodness! I checked into Carbonite, but they said their avg. user backs up 25G at most. It would have taken me a couple weeks to redownload all the files I have for the volume....not sure about uploading. We also only have mid-speed internet. So for now, I'm still backing up to multiple hard drives at home. AND printing the most important photos so they'll never be lost! I don’t currently use an online service, mainly because the files I back up are huge and numerous. About 400G+ and growing daily. I also had my new computer hard drive crash in Feb. 2010 and it was only 3 months old. Luckily I was under warranty and they shipped me a new drive immediately. But oh the data I lost! Also because I know this is all too common, I had a 1.5 TB hard drive back up AND a 500G seagate free agent go drive where I had backed up all my photography files. Over 20,000 photos and digital scrapbook page files. I was able to recover all my files in a few hours at home onto my new drive and didn’t lose one photo I had taken in the past 10 years. Thank goodness! I checked into Carbonite, but they said their avg. user backs up 25G at most. It would have taken me a couple weeks to redownload all the files I have for the volume….not sure about uploading. We also only have mid-speed internet. So for now, I’m still backing up to multiple hard drives at home. AND printing the most important photos so they’ll never be lost!

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