Comments on: Why you should back up your computer and how to do it

By: Online Backup Service

Online Backup Service — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:30:58 +0000

I’m also a mac user, but I have a PC for a small handful of programs I can’t run on the mac. For my laptop I use a free account at Typhoonbackup to back up my files.

By: colin

colin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:10:44 +0000

Laurence

Yes, rsync is the way to do it if you are geeky enough to set the thing up in the first place! Not to mention having multiple machiens to hand whiohc most people still don’t.

John

Backing up to the Internet has a number of issues in my mind. One is the data cap most of us live under. Another is the encryption – I’d want to control that, not just accept whatever the backup company gave me. And you also have to worry about physically where your data is. What is the legal environment it’s under and and what rights and obligations do you have there? Finally you also have to ask yourself what comeback you have if it doesn;t perform when you do want to restore files.

Colin

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:41:03 +0000

I was wondering about the various ways of backing up data and your comments this morning were very useful. However you didn’t say anything about using internet back up services. I appreciate that there are issues here of storage integrity and access speed but in this area things are changing almost daily so it could be considered a possibility if your files were suitably encrypted. What do you think?

By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:36:03 +0000

I have my older machine backing up my newer machine. Every time I create new documents, programs, photographs or whatever, I run a custom script which uses rsync to mirror the updates to the backup machine—quick and convenient.

Every now and then I do burn a bunch of CDs/DVDs, and pop them in the bank safe-deposit account. They only charge me a few dollars a year.