SOCIAL: Periodic Reminder: BACK UP YOUR DATA

[Geoff Davis]

Time Capsule is cool but won't save you if your apartment burns down or a
thief steals your backup drive and your laptop.  I just signed up for
CrashPlan, an off site backup service:
http://b5.crashplan.com/landing/index.html

Thankfully I haven't had to test them out, but the reviews are all pretty
good.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Manish Champsee <manish at champsee.com>wrote:

> Saved my butt about a year ago when my hard drive failed.
>
> Manish
>
> Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any typos
>
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Lisa Manter <lisamanter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Time Machine is amazing!  I had to lose all my stuff before getting off my
> butt to get one.  I should have listened to Deep . . .
>   Lisa
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Amandeep Jawa < <deep at deeptrouble.com>
> deep at deeptrouble.com> wrote:
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>> Hey folks -
>>
>> A few days ago a friend's Mac got wet & he could have easily lost the book
>> he was writing.  Luckily he has a backup & all was well.  Most of you aren't
>> writing books but have tons of photos and stuff on your computers that are
>> priceless to you probably.
>>
>> Please back up your data TODAY and regularly to another hard drive that
>> you don't use.
>>
>> If you're on a Mac - I strongly recommend Time Machine & better yet, Time
>> Capsule.
>>  <http://www.deeptrouble.com/2008/03/11/time_capsule/>
>> http://www.deeptrouble.com/2008/03/11/time_capsule/
>>
>> If you're on a PC, well good luck :-) but seriously - back up your data to
>> an external HD.
>>
>> 'deep
>>
>>
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