I have been thinking about needing a backup solution that would give me an option to not have my backup in the same place as the computer. I have a spare old hard drive and I have used it for several years as my backup for everything. Then a good friend lost her computer & her backup hard drive in a home theft. This got me to thinking I could lose all mine to theft, fire, water damage, tornado, etc. Thus my quest to find another solution. If I can back up everything on a CD, DVD, or portable USB drive I could keep it anywhere away from home. Also if I could ftp it onto a web based storage or server, then I could have a real fail safe solution by having it in 2 places. I figure if I back up every 3 months on average, then I would not lose a large amount of info. Elaine Billie Nichols Bennett wrote: > I was backing up my computer on DVD's.... but I bought a Maxtor external hard drive and now I have it set to backup my whole computer once a week. I know that involves a purchase, but it is minor compared to the computer and I'm not giving anyone access to my computer by subscribing to a online service or leaving it to memory to do the DVD's. > > Billie Nichols Bennett > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Elaine > To: txgen > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:27 PM > Subject: [TXGEN] backup solutions > > > Hello fellow TXGenWebers > > I have been looking for a good backup solution for my hard drive. > Heaven forbid I should lose all my county info & TXGenWeb info in a HD > crash. Today I was given a few good options for this problem and I > thought I would share with you. > > Of course, free is my kind of idea for any solution.......... > > #1 - FileFort Backup Software <http://nchsoftware.com/backup/index.html> > (free) - comes highly recommended as being user friendly. It will > backup your critical data to virtually any type of storage media > including CD, DVD, Blu-ray and remote FTP servers. Works on Windows > Vista/2008 2000/XP/2003 > > #2 COMODO <http://backup.comodo.com/> (free) - backup files or folders > anywhere on your computer, network, DVD-RW, CD-RW or FTP server. Works > on Windows Vista/Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or later)/Windows 2000 > (Service Pack 3 or later) > > For MAC users: > #3 Time Machine <http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html> > (free) - It is built into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of > everything on your Mac --- digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and > documents. > > Then there are some good online backup offers that are free. > > One of the most well known online backup services that still offers free > accounts is Mozy's Free Backup Service <http://mozy.com/> - offers you 2 > GB of storage space. Compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP and > Windows Vista, as well as Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. > > Another free online backup service is iDrive <http://www.idrive.com/>. - > offers you 2 GB of storage space. You have access to automatic and > manual backup options, true archiving, versioning, mapped drive backup, > continuous backup options and web-based backup management options. > Works for both Mac and Windows users. > > Hope this helps some of you save your info if you should, heaven forbid, > have a system crash. > > Elaine > > -- > I'd rather look for dead people than have them look for me.... > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- I'd rather look for dead people than have them look for me....