MARCH 31 - World Backup Day

By John Michael, 1st Apr 2012 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/21q-bnq6/
Posted in Wikinut>News>Technology

Today, it's probably true that your whole life is centered and stored on your computer, whether it be a desktop, notebook, or tablet. And in an instant, it could be G O N E !

Hard disks crash, notebook computers get stolen and tablets get dropped and then what do you do? Now is the time to BACKUP! Not tomorrow, T O D A Y and automate it.

Files, Data, Photos ... Your Life

It probably started with a photo, then a spreadsheet, then a letter to your friend, more photos, your financial history - checkbook, credit cards, mortgage payments, your will. Soon the kilobytes turned into megabytes and heading for gigabytes and on the horizon terabytes. We're talking some serious bits and bytes here.

And given time ALL HARD DISKS WILL FAIL. Some today, some tomorrow, next week... all unexpectantly. So what do you do? Backup your files. You can buy thumbdrives, external drives, CDs, DVDs, a SANS

OR

You can choose among the growing number of online services (currently called "the cloud" - isn't it funny how they've taken a service from the 1960s and 1970s "timesharing services" and now call it the cloud?"

In a related set of pages we will examine the alternatives.

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John Michael
A professional photographer living in the Washington DC area, John Michael has traveled extensively across the United States capturing the sights in his photography. Since 2000, he has focused on the United States military, especially the US Army and...(more)