Comments on: How to completely back up your freelance life

By: Issa

Issa — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:54:20 +0000

Definitely helpful! Thanks! I’ve been storing data the ‘hard’ way. I just never thought it safe to go for an online backup and I might give it a try.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:03:52 +0000

I’m doing genealogy and my computer failed Thanksgiving night. I just said and cried-my Maxtor had stopped working for some reason but I was able to retrieve some information and my astute and talented daughter retrieved most of the rest. Your article was a real eye opener and much appreciated. I’m looking into Dropbox and others today and getting started. It’s always in the back of my mind that it will happen again. Wasn’t sure to purchase an external or subscribe to a service. Maybe both. I’m wondering how much 2gb would really be and how much I could save that way. Thanks again.

By: The Aleksandar

The Aleksandar — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:00:13 +0000

I use combination of online and external hard drive backup. And it works well so far.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:23 +0000

I learned the hard way with USB backup storage.

I started backing up everything on one of them and after a month it failed. Lost all the data that was on it.

Make sure you keep a backup of your backups. Solid State USB drives I’m sure are a lot better and less likely to fail.

By: James Armes

James Armes — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:26:48 +0000

I like to scan my paper documents and back up the PDFs with the rest of my files. If you’ve never scanned your documents before it can be a daunting task to get started. Once you make a habit though, it takes little time and can be well worth it in case of fire, flood or some other disaster.

By: DesignLovr

DesignLovr — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:31:31 +0000

I'm using Mozy for my online backups. You're getting 2GB for free (just enough to backup the real important files) or unlimited space for only $4.95. Besides that I totally agree that you should better be safe than sorry and backup online and offline.

By: Online Backups Review

Online Backups Review — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:41:50 +0000

I’ve got a couple computers backing up to Mozy, but my main computer backs up to IDrive and uses an IDrive Portable. This way, I have both local and online backups of my data. The best of both worlds!

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:16:07 +0000

Dropbox would be the main one for me, too. Not only does it keep things backed up, but it keeps my files nicely synced between my desktop, laptop and netbook.

Other software helps in similar ways — Evernote, Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. They’re all accessible from any of my computers (or any of yours, if need be) and are backed up by nature.

By: How to completely back up your freelance life

How to completely back up your freelance life — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:49:10 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:57:27 +0000

yeah. myself included.

and wow, I need to edit the comments to not be white text in your box