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<p class="MsoNormal">Over the past few weeks, I have become aware of a number of
people having problems</p><p class="MsoNormal"> with their computers and in danger of losing data on
their hard drives amounting to weeks,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> months, and years of hard work.<span style=""> </span>Some of these same people have not backed up
their</p><p class="MsoNormal"> data recently, or even ever, not being aware of a method for performing
the backup.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are many means available today for performing backups
of your hard drive.<span style=""> </span>Most</p><p class="MsoNormal"> involve some
expense, but the expense is nothing compared to what it would cost to replace</p><p class="MsoNormal">
all the documents, images, etc. that you have accumulated over the years.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the methods available include “no-brainer” online backups
like Mozy</p><p class="MsoNormal"> (<a href="http://www.mozy.com/">http://www.mozy.com</a>) or Backblaze
(<a href="http://www.backblaze.com/">http://www.backblaze.com</a> ), or an
external hard drive</p><p class="MsoNormal"> such as ClickFree (<a href="http://www.goclickfree.com/">http://www.goclickfree.com/</a>)
or Free Agent (<a href="http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/">http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/</a>)</p><p class="MsoNormal">
that, after configuration for your system, will automatically perform backups
of new or changed files.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you prefer a more hands-on approach where you choose to
do the backups yourself, any</p><p class="MsoNormal"> number of ways exist to do this.<span style=""> </span>You can back up your files to CD or DVD,
thumb drive(s).<span style=""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span>Your Internet service
provider most likely offers you several gigabytes of storage on their server,</p><p class="MsoNormal">
allowing you to upload files.<span style=""> </span>Microsoft’s
SkyDrive gives you 25GB of storage for free.<span style="">
</span>Anyone</p><p class="MsoNormal"> using the Firefox browser can install an add-on called GSpace,
allowing you to use a Gmail account<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> (now about 7GB) for file storage, also free.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For anyone choosing to backup their hard drive to any on site
device such as an external hard drive,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> thumb drive or CD, you also should
consider off site storage.<span style=""> </span>After all, if
you store your backups in</p><p class="MsoNormal"> the same location as the computer and you suffer a
catastrophe (God forbid) resulting in the loss of</p><p class="MsoNormal"> the location of said
computer, more than likely you have lost your backups as well.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As I climb down from my soap box, I will just add that any
expense incurred to safeguard your data</p><p class="MsoNormal"> is worth it.<span style="">
</span>Take the time to protect your research now, before it’s too late.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Peggy<br></p>
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