Slightly Tech-ie Post: Any Recommendations for Online Backup?
Since my old hardrive went bad a few months ago, and I had to deal with a painfully slow home backup system that made it hard to restore my files and impossible to restore programs, I have been looking into better backup solutions. I’m looking at online backup plans like Mozy.com, online hard drive, and others. Anyone have any experience with this?
To make things worse, my new laptop runs Vista Ultimate, which seems to have a bug that does not allow me to run a regular backup to any other computer or thumb drive automatically. Yay for Microsoft (not!) Anybody run into this and have any tips?
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
Anne
Depending on how much stuff you want to back up, you could set up a gmail account and just stash your documents there. If what you’re looking to back up is mostly writing stuff, that would probably work great. If you have a ton of music or you’re wanting to back up software, then maybe not so much.
Felicity
Ryan tried Mozy and was unimpressed. He’s now liking Crashplan.