After watching all of the lectures for week 14 I took the quiz, watched some TV and then went to bed. As I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep the thought of a hard drive failure or fire kept entering my mind. How would my wife deal with the news that all of her pictures of our almost 2 year old son were lost and gone forever because I was relying on a Best Buy quality hard drive to keep our budget, taxes, pictures, music and just about everything you could imagine safe and secure. Needless to say it was a relatively sleepless night.
Over the past couple years there have been many commercials and advertising dollars spent by companies that backup your computer system over the internet at regular intervals. While I had always thought it was a novel idea I had never really jumped into action to make it happen. This morning I began searching. Carbonite and Mozy are 2 products that came up. Both offer relatively the same features for about $60 per month. These services have some software that you simply download and they handle the rest. Mozy actually even allows for 2GB of free storage with no cost! Well you can imagine that 2 GB won't go far. My file containing pictures on the computer contains about 3.5GB alone.
At the writing of this blog I have not actually pulled the trigger on one of these systems as I am still searching for the best option for my situation. I do however know that once I find one I will scream at the top of every hill that anybody who stores anything important on their computer needs to back it up in some manner. It may not make sense to set up a RAID 1 system in your house but I can bet it makes sense to do something.
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