If you’re a regular reader of this site, you should be making regular back-ups. Part and parcel of being a certified ‘geek’ is having at least 2 methods of redundancy of your data, plus one off-site copy.
Before today, I didn’t know a designated backup day was even assigned, but World Backup Day is something I could seriously get behind.
I have at least 3 back-ups of all my data at any given point in time. As they say, it’s not a matter of if your data will die, it’s when.
For localized back-ups, I use SuperDuper and Apple’s bult-in Time Machine. SuperDuper runs daily while TimeMachine operates hourly. Data is copied to a separate drive in both cases. I use Backblaze for my off-site data backup. I’ve been with them for a year and it’s been a great experience so far.
What are your favorite back-up tools? How often do you make back-ups? What’s your back-up strategy? Sound off in the comments below.
-Krishna
Backblaze is bombtastic. We used to use Mozy for years, despite the bugs and headaches, but now that Mozy is jacking up prices for home users, we have switched to BB, and I wish I had done it years ago.
Backblaze rules! Glad to hear its working well for you, Doug.
I do mostly local backup, some on Flickr, Dropbox and MobileMe. For decent cloud storage I need a credit card, which I don’t have, because of low income, which also excludes a deposit box. Full cloud backup is for people with good disposable incomes, it seems.
It’s not as expensive as you think, Rene. Backblaze is $5.00 per month. You’re paying more for MobileMe and it has a storage cap.