Comments on: Back Up Your Data! http://www.domainmagnate.com/2010/11/01/back-up-your-data/ Perfection is the direction Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Domain Hammer http://www.domainmagnate.com/2010/11/01/back-up-your-data/comment-page-1/#comment-42518 Domain Hammer Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:50:13 +0000 http://www.domainmagnate.com/?p=657#comment-42518 I am using external backups. For online backups, one should have a quality review before I saved my archives on them. I am using external backups. For online backups, one should have a quality review before I saved my archives on them.

]]> By: Rone http://www.domainmagnate.com/2010/11/01/back-up-your-data/comment-page-1/#comment-36248 Rone Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:59:42 +0000 http://www.domainmagnate.com/?p=657#comment-36248 This is very good information.Backups are the best way to secure data.Hard drives are just like time bombs which can go off any time.Am so lucky because my files are so secure onilne with an online backup solution called Safecopy backup.This have saved me from spending tons of money and also saved my time as well because with online backups,every thing is automatic. This is very good information.Backups are the best way to secure data.Hard drives are just like time bombs which can go off any time.Am so lucky because my files are so secure onilne with an online backup solution called Safecopy backup.This have saved me from spending tons of money and also saved my time as well because with online backups,every thing is automatic.

]]> By: Andrew R http://www.domainmagnate.com/2010/11/01/back-up-your-data/comment-page-1/#comment-36205 Andrew R Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:46:11 +0000 http://www.domainmagnate.com/?p=657#comment-36205 If you are using an external drive, here is a simple solution... xxcopy. xxcopy is free for personal use and a very small application. After downloading xxcopy from the web, create a folder on your external drive. I'm using the directory 20101101 in the example below. Usually a small name like the date works - and putting everything in this directory will allow you to keep multiple backups. Then run this from a command prompt... xxcopy c:\*.* g:\20101101\ /e/c/h/r/k/y This will copy your entire C drive to the backup drive. You can use the above command with "xcopy" which is installed on most Windows machines - but many people have issues with xcopy and xxcopy is a lot better and more robust from my own experience. The nice part about this is in event of total data loss, you have a copy of everything on your machine including bookmarks, application settings, etc. If you use Outlook be sure to close Outlook before you run the backup command. I suggest two hard drives and keeping a backup offsite - as this will keep you best protected. -- Another up-and-coming technology is "online backup" which is backing up to the cloud. This typically runs $50 a year from most companies for one machine. I like BackBlaze as it allows you to give it an encryption key, thus the files are encrypted and not readable by anyone without the key. I suggest using a very strong key like d@#kfdk2#942302kdaAFDak23. Be sure you keep that key as you will need it to retrieve a backup at a later date. If you are using an external drive, here is a simple solution… xxcopy. xxcopy is free for personal use and a very small application.

After downloading xxcopy from the web, create a folder on your external drive. I’m using the directory 20101101 in the example below. Usually a small name like the date works – and putting everything in this directory will allow you to keep multiple backups. Then run this from a command prompt…

xxcopy c:\*.* g:\20101101\ /e/c/h/r/k/y

This will copy your entire C drive to the backup drive. You can use the above command with “xcopy” which is installed on most Windows machines – but many people have issues with xcopy and xxcopy is a lot better and more robust from my own experience.

The nice part about this is in event of total data loss, you have a copy of everything on your machine including bookmarks, application settings, etc. If you use Outlook be sure to close Outlook before you run the backup command.

I suggest two hard drives and keeping a backup offsite – as this will keep you best protected.

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Another up-and-coming technology is “online backup” which is backing up to the cloud. This typically runs $50 a year from most companies for one machine. I like BackBlaze as it allows you to give it an encryption key, thus the files are encrypted and not readable by anyone without the key. I suggest using a very strong key like d@#kfdk2#942302kdaAFDak23. Be sure you keep that key as you will need it to retrieve a backup at a later date.

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