I’ve heard stories of people who backup their data to an external hard drive which is great and wonderful, but than their external hard drive fails without warning and they end up spending money for programs to help retrieve those precious files.
It’s very important to have at least two copies of your backup data preferably one that’s “off site” meaning away from your house this way if your house burns down you still have copies somewhere safe. One easy way to do this is have local backup on a external hard drive and a online backup solution for off site storage. This is a good technique for backing up, if something happened to your external hard drive you don’t have to worry cause you got a backup copy online.
Here are some popular online backup storage:
- Carbonite – unlimited online backup for 50 dollars a year
- Mozy – similar to Carbonite, Mozy also offers 2 GB free online storage
- JungleDisk – uses Amazon’s S3 storage and costs only 15 cents per GB the great thing about JungleDisk is you only pay for what you use.