Free Online Backups

Posted 3 years, 11 months ago at 3:10 pm. 2 comments

With my recent move to a paperless office, I decided I to start doing backups more consistently and to find an online solution for this.  Previously, I had been using an IDE to USB cable to sporadically do important backups by manually copying important data like photos, my Outlook file, etc. to an old hard drive.  Then I put the drive in my fire safe and lock it.

I found out about Mozy, an online backup service that comes with great software and allows you up to 2GB of free online backups.  It has been working great for me.  I split off my really big files into a separate folder, and keep those backed up locally in the fire safe, but 99% of my scanned files are now backed up online automatically at no cost.

2 Replies

  1. Robert Burdock Feb 29th 2008

    Hi,
    Backing-up online is the way to go. I just wanted to point out another alternative - XDrive (www.xdrive.com). 5GB of free space but the neat feature, if you install the Xdrive desktop client in the download section, is that the online space is mapped on your computer as a virtual hard drive. Very handy.

    You probably already know about Microsoft’s upgrading of their FREE SkyDrive accounts from 2GB up to 5GB but I thought I’d just mention that as well

    Continued success on the move to paperless.
    Robert

  2. Jeff Axelrod Mar 4th 2008

    It appears that xdrive isn’t taking new customers. I have tried several times over the past couple of days, and the sign-up returns a general error telling me to try again later.


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