Hotmail Outage and Some Lessons
As already reported quite a bit in the tech press, a number of users of Microsoft’s Hotmail service have discovered that all their stored messages are now gone. Usually storing your email in the clouds seems like the best solution instead of trying to manage it ; As we have seen however, having data in the cloud does not always guarantee it’s safety. Like backing up other types of data it is best to have…
Xmarks Survives
In a previous post I said that Xmarks; an excellent bookmark backup and sync service was in danger of being shut down. Recently the company announced that they have been purchased by LastPass a online password manager service. This seems to be a good fit for both companies and will ensure that users will still keep the ability to synchronize and backup bookmarks across browsers.
Offsite Backup Example #1
Here’s a perfect example on why you need to get your data offsite. Francis Ford Coppola, yes the same one who brought us “The Godfather”, several years ago had a burglary in his house in which his laptop and his onsite backup were stolen. Items lost included a script for a movie he was currently working on as well as family photos and other irreplaceable files. This shows a excellent reason why you should be…