*NOTE* not selling anything, just getting you guys to think about what you have and if it is safe!*NOTE*
Just for this summer I am working for a friend of mine who has his own IT company. Part of what he offers is a backup solution for customers.
Now we had someone come in today who had an apple mac, time capsule and all the right software (which comes with the mac) however he had no backups from about the beginning of this year.
This was because he noticed something was wrong with the backups (an error message popped up) but he took no notice and thought he would be okay.
His harddrive has packed up...completely...
Anyways he is not okay and has lost a fair few months data
So got me thinking about what backup solution I have and how I could protect myself against a loss.
I did not start this day with a backup solution...
so I went and got myself one
Personally I went for a bit of software called crashplan+
backups of every 15 minutes, it is to the cloud and also all my family's PC's including my laptop backup to my PC as another destination. This makes is faster to backup and restore.
Plus it keeps multiple versions of files, so if I / we make a mistake and think "oh dam I shouldn't have deleted/changed that file" we can just restore it from a previous version.
So for me I could have a house fire now and have everything in the house + all the PCs totally destroyed.
Then to restore all my data all I would have to wait for is to get the new PC hardware and then it would be as quick as my internet connection is. so not long at all.
Plus I would have a backup set of 15 minutes before the PC(s) was destroyed.
Not bad I think?
Just wondering what else you guys have out there?
Also just want to raise awareness of how important backups are and how much you don't realise you need them...until it is too late of course!
Was going to include a poll but thought it better if you guys gave a brief description of your backup solution, e.g. how often you have the backup run? every hour? every day?
And what you could survive? e.g. a house fire with all PCs / hard drives destroyed? or just one virus on one PC?
Just for this summer I am working for a friend of mine who has his own IT company. Part of what he offers is a backup solution for customers.
Now we had someone come in today who had an apple mac, time capsule and all the right software (which comes with the mac) however he had no backups from about the beginning of this year.
This was because he noticed something was wrong with the backups (an error message popped up) but he took no notice and thought he would be okay.
His harddrive has packed up...completely...
Anyways he is not okay and has lost a fair few months data
So got me thinking about what backup solution I have and how I could protect myself against a loss.
I did not start this day with a backup solution...
so I went and got myself one
Personally I went for a bit of software called crashplan+
backups of every 15 minutes, it is to the cloud and also all my family's PC's including my laptop backup to my PC as another destination. This makes is faster to backup and restore.
Plus it keeps multiple versions of files, so if I / we make a mistake and think "oh dam I shouldn't have deleted/changed that file" we can just restore it from a previous version.
So for me I could have a house fire now and have everything in the house + all the PCs totally destroyed.
Then to restore all my data all I would have to wait for is to get the new PC hardware and then it would be as quick as my internet connection is. so not long at all.
Plus I would have a backup set of 15 minutes before the PC(s) was destroyed.
Not bad I think?
Just wondering what else you guys have out there?
Also just want to raise awareness of how important backups are and how much you don't realise you need them...until it is too late of course!
Was going to include a poll but thought it better if you guys gave a brief description of your backup solution, e.g. how often you have the backup run? every hour? every day?
And what you could survive? e.g. a house fire with all PCs / hard drives destroyed? or just one virus on one PC?