World Backup Day 2013
Today is World Backup Day. Where folks like me remind folks like you about the importance of backing up your data. Some of the stats from the site are quite sobering. More than 60 million computers will fail worldwide in 2013. Only 1 in 4 people back up their information regularly - that's roughly 45 million times this year where files will be lost forever. 113 cell phones are lost or stolen every minute in…
Dropbox and BackWPup to Backup WordPress Blogs
Reading some interesting creative uses for Dropbox, a file sync/storage service that is very popular. One thing some people use it for is to backup their blogs to. In terms of using it strictly as a backup service is not always recommended, in terms of a offsite destination certainly is worth looking at. Backups for blog should follow the same basic guidelines I have for backups from your system. There should be 3 copies, 1…
Drive Prices Should Not Dictate Backups
Have you looked at hard drive prices lately? If you have not been in the market for a few months, you will get a nasty surprise when going to purchase one. In many cases drive prices have doubled from six months ago. The main reason for this is that the worst flooding in decades hit Thailand where most of the worlds drive manufacturers have their factories. Western Digital announced that 75% of production was affected. …