I’m late in writing my daily Shotgun report because I have four computers sitting in my office in various forms of failure. Fortunately, at some expense to the owners, I was able to extract some valuable data from two of the machines. The other two machines didn’t fair as well and nothing was salvageable.
Today’s lesson? BACKUP!!!!!!!
I just searched HelpMeRick.com and found no less than 15 articles and tips directly related to backing up your valuable data. In today’s computing world, backing up your data takes less time and money than ever before. And since our computers hold so much valuable data for us today, backing up your data should be paramount for all of us to avoid the catastrophe that can and usually does hit all of us with these imperfect machines.
Currently, I use an external hard drive for my automatic daily backup, but I burn those files to DVD’s once per month to make sure they don’t only live on movable, breakable media like hard drives. I set up my daily backup over a year ago with the easy and inexpensive Second Copy backup program.
Since then, I haven’t had to worry about that part of my backup regime…only my monthly backups to DVD’s using my DVD burning program.
This week, I plan to put together a video tip on using Second Copy backup to add to the plethora of backup tips we have posted here for YOU at HelpMeRick.com. Also, my goal for the first quarter of 2008 is to test the many online backup systems and review them here as well.
Please help yourselves and use these tips to protect yourself and your data. Also, be a good neighbor and forward our backup tips to friends and family who also have precious digital data they need to backup.
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I have started to use Carbonite and finally I can relax. Carbonite is $5 per month and does a great job, behind the scenes, backing up everything I designate. No external hard drives, DVD….nothing…and I can access the data from anyplace that has internet access. Very cool!
backup is important I got a new vista computer I spent two months to setup then I go to backup and visters backup goes blue and catastrophic failure .I will save about 50% of my stuf .even in two month I put a lot on my computer IF I ONLY BACKUP BEFOUR NOW
Here’s what happened to thousands of charter.net customers:
Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts.
There is no way to retrieve the messages, photos and other attachments that were erased from inboxes and archive folders across the country on Monday, said Anita Lamont, a spokeswoman for the suburban St. Louis-based company.
“We really are sincerely sorry for having had this happen and do apologize to all those folks who were affected by the error,” Lamont said Thursday when the company announced the gaffe.
Charter gives each new Internet user a free e-mail account, but some customers opt to use other accounts instead.
“During this maintenance we erroneously deleted active accounts along with the others,” Lamont said. “It’s never happened before. They are taking steps to make sure it never happens again.”
Charter provides service in 29 states, and Lamont said the affected customers were scattered around the country.
Computer experts advise backing up all important e-mail.