How many times do you have to go through the realization that you have just lost all your pictures, videos, or important excel and word documents because of a hard drive failure? Many people believe that using a simple flash drive, CD, or tape back up system will save them.
However, these back up devices are expensive, cumbersome, and are subject to failure on their own.
I have lost my hard drive on three separate occasions.
The first, I had no back up at all.
I lost lots of family pictures, as well as my business plans and contacts.
Not to mention hoards of archived email.
Swearing to never let this happen again, I invested in CD back up, and I would back up about once every week or so.
The process was actually frustrating, as it takes a long time to complete.
After losing my hard drive a second time, I popped in my CD's of back up, only to find someone had spilled soda on them.
They were not readable.
Data lost, again.
It was after this that I decided there had to be a better way to securely back up my files.
What I found was secure online backup software that automatically updated daily and stored my files remotely.
When I lost my hard drive a third time due to an electrical storm, all my files up to the day of the event were able to be fully recovered from my remote storage account.
Needless to say, I was ecstatic.
Not only were my family photos restored, but my home business files were also fully functional in a matter of minutes.