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A couple of weeks ago I thought I lost all my data on my backup hard drive, some of which no longer exists on my laptop. I kind of freaked out. Not like a total sissy. A manly freak out. Totally acceptable.
I had placed a great amount of faith in my trusty Lacie 160 GB Firewire backup. It was my dependable desktop friend. Always comforting me every time I read about some poor sap who lost it all because of their unwillingness to back up their precious data. Dorks! Philistines! Savages!
Well, it turns out, hard drives can go bad in backup media as well as on your personal computer. Quite a revelation. It turns out in my case it was just a faulty power supply. I ordered the new one and -shazaam- all was well.
However, my experience taught me a lesson. I immediately began looking for an offsite storage solution for my data. I found Mozy.com. This is pretty cool.
Mozy.com will give you unlimited data backups for $4.95 per month. If you’re a business they’ll charge you a little bit more. What’s so great about online backups? Well, a couple of things:
1. It’s more secure than the hard drive backup in your home or office. (Think fire, flood, power surges, infants, dogs, failed hard drives, etc, etc.)
2. You can backup from anywhere. I love this. If I’m working from my buddy’s condo in Mexico I can back up. If I’m traveling on business, I’m backing up.
I hope this is not lost on you. For $4.95 a month you can’t beat it.
For most of us entrepreneurial types there could be one or two documents on your computer at any given time that, if lost, would make you weep with the fury of a Vietnamese monsoon.
That’s why this service is great. That’s right, great!
You can try it out for free. They’ll give you 2GB of storage just for being you!
