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Monday, October 16, 2006
Backing up can be hard to do
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If hard disks hung out at tattoo parlors, all of them would have a tattoo that says: Born to die.
Your hard disk is going to fail if you use it long enough. It’s a mechanical device and like Toyotas, toy trains and coffee machines it will eventually stop working.
When that happens, your only hope is to retrieve all your data using the back-up copy you made earlier. You do back up your data, right?
Well, if you’re like most people you back up infrequently at best and never at worst. That means that you are likely to lose all the digital photos, tax records, e-mails and e-mail addresses … every bit of data stored on the hard disk.
Online backup services have been around for a long time. But they’ve either been too expensive or too clunky to use. But PC World magazine is giving rave revues to a new service called Carbonite.
It is affordable at $50 for one year, or $90 for two years. And while making a complete back-up can take many hours, the program works at that task in the background while you cruise the Web and perform your usual tasks.
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