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How to make very lazy backups
Dec. 3rd, 2005 06:19 pmAs we all know, we really should make regular backups of our data, just in case something bad happens to our computers.
As we all also know, almost nobody actually does this.
I started about three months ago, when I bumped into a recommendation for Data Deposit Box. I installed their client on my PC, told it to back up nothing except the My Documents folder, and well, that was it.
It keeps up to 3 previous versions of anything it backs up (and can keep uo to 28 if I so wished), works whenever I'm idle, and charges 1 cent per MB per month. Which, for me, works out to about 54 cents per month.
Now, this doesn't include lots of photos, or my video collection, or my MP3s. This wouldn't be a terribly cheap way of doing that - if I wanted those to be safe I'd burn them all onto a few DVDs and hand them to a friend to look after. But for storing the few important documents I have, it's an almost invisible cheap way of making sure that everything is safe.
I recommend it.
As we all also know, almost nobody actually does this.
I started about three months ago, when I bumped into a recommendation for Data Deposit Box. I installed their client on my PC, told it to back up nothing except the My Documents folder, and well, that was it.
It keeps up to 3 previous versions of anything it backs up (and can keep uo to 28 if I so wished), works whenever I'm idle, and charges 1 cent per MB per month. Which, for me, works out to about 54 cents per month.
Now, this doesn't include lots of photos, or my video collection, or my MP3s. This wouldn't be a terribly cheap way of doing that - if I wanted those to be safe I'd burn them all onto a few DVDs and hand them to a friend to look after. But for storing the few important documents I have, it's an almost invisible cheap way of making sure that everything is safe.
I recommend it.
