At home, data backup is something you know you should do, but never quite get around to. I think that's about to change. For many of us the home PC is becoming a media centre. It suddenly holds thousands of dollars worth of music, hours of video, and hundreds of priceless photos.
I've been using a Maxtor drive to backup my home PC every couple of months. It's a great product, but a lousy solution. I could easily lose a hundred family photos if my hard drive fails. And if the house burns down I lose the PC and the Maxtor.
Fred Wilson is recommending Carbonite's online backup solution and I'm going to give it a try. It's cheap, only a couple of bucks a month. And there are some smarts involved: the program only uploads data when it senses the PC is idle. That eliminates the infuriating problems with sluggish performance that plague users of many automatic software updates.
Did you ever give Carbonite a try? I noticed a lot of discussion in www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?topic_id=9769
Do you know when they are coming out with a version that backs up everything, not just files. You're right, it is cheap!
Posted by: Hans Klein | February 19, 2006 at 08:10 AM
That's really great!!
I'm also using additional hard disks for backup purpose. But your idea really inspired me to have services of FRED WILSON.
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