Why I Recommend Online Backup Services

Things happen. Bad things happen. And sometimes--really, really bad things happen. Take the damage that assaulted our Gulf Coast region when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit. Painful to view and devastating to experience.

Take a look at these photos of hard drives that the hard drive disaster recovery experts at Drivesavers sent us.

Here's hoping their data was recoverable. Naturally, the level of intervention it takes to get the data back in these kinds of circumstances costs a pretty penny. That's one reason I suggest using online backup services for the data you can't afford to lose.

Here's our September review of online services and a comparative chart.

Also, check out our entire "Big Drive Backup" package.

Comments

Get a Yahoo small business website. A website plus 2gb of storage for $10/month. And you can access your files from anywhere. Or seal your external HD in a bag before the next hurricane.

Anonymous

October 01, 2005

11:23 AM PT

Better than that, get an Inbox.com email account (or several). You get 2GB of space, with a built-in upload function (even GMail doesn't do that) and it's FREE! With NO ads. You can then use the $10 a month for gas!

Toulinwoek

October 02, 2005

6:46 AM PT

Having a place to put it doesn't mean it gets there. With the online services, you automate the backups and they get done. Of course, if you're sure you'll get it done manually--no problem, right? Just a thought....

Anonymous

October 02, 2005

12:19 PM PT

Another thing that works is Gmail Drive. It will let you use your Gmail account for storage, it adds another drive to My Computer and Windows Explorer.

Annonymouse

October 02, 2005

12:43 PM PT

Yeah, I do manual backups at work a lot. Then I realize that it's been a month since the last time I did one. Nice to have that automatic backup of everything that has changed every work day evening.

Anonymous

October 02, 2005

4:00 PM PT

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Mami

October 02, 2005

11:50 PM PT