I have been working on a spreadsheet, and tonight, I transferred it over to Google Docs so I can easily share it with Dayna. Once I did that, I continued to work on it online and then I deleted the original files off my computer. You probably know where this is going, don't you? Long story short, somehow I managed to corrupt the file on Google's server and it kept telling me "a server error occurred" when I tried to open the spreadsheet! DOH!
Luckily, I use Mozy (an online backup service) to backup a few things on my computer including the original spreadsheet. I restored the original spreadsheet in just a few minutes and I only lost about an hour's worth of work on it. The service paid for itself tonight... considering that it is free (at least for the level at which I have signed up).
Actually, we had Dayna signed up for the paid service (USD$60/year) and it is keeping a current backup of some 25GB worth of photos and videos on her computer. If you are not using a backup solution now, I highly recommend putting one in place. Mozy is definitely one of the easiest ones I have used. Consider it insurance for your photos and other important files.
K
PS: If you happen to want to sign up, please use this link (https://mozy.com/?code=4237DB); it will give me a bit of extra storage quota on my free account :-) Thanks.
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You've got me thinking Karl!
None of my pic's are backed up. I will have to check out the link.
Thanks for the reminder! I read your post just before leaving for the beach and it reminded me to set Mozy to do my initial backup (which, as I'm sure you know, takes a lot of bandwidth and time to do the initial back up). We just got back and it's all done! Makes me feel much better knowing all my pics and docs are safe! ~M
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