The Powers that Be have deemed that March 31, is World Backup Day, and while one can be cynical that this is all just a plot to make you purchase backup services and hard drives, there is no doubt whatsoever that it is the perfect opportunity for geeks and non-geeks everywhere to learn about the importance of data backup!
Did you hear me... BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!
Your data includes everything you do with your computer and smart phone and tablet.... contacts, all your photos, all those settings on your computer you took years to finesse, and those special folders you keep tucked away!
Here's what we do at Geek Culture Headquarters. We back up via OS X's Time Machine to a local drive. We also use the mighty SuperDuper to backup to that local drive and also an awesome ioSafe's Disaster Proof drive. Then we use some great Cloud services, like Dropbox, iCloud, and CrashPlan to back up all of our precious stuff offsite. It may sound like overkill, but believe me, it's not. When the time comes that you lose precious data in a crash or accident, you will be one happy geek to get it back.
I mentioned CrashPlan a few second ago, it's a great backup service with a ton of options, that's actually very simple and very affordable too. We checked out and used several of these kinds of services before deciding that CrashPlan was the one for us. And to get you started, the nice folks at CrashPlan are offering a one year subscription to CrashPlan+ to one of our readers. So check out all the backup solutions I've mentioned, and give the free trials a try. And you can enter the CrashPlan+ giveaway here!
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