Yacking about Backing up your Computer...Well, what is it that flips my sanity switch about another computer crash? I could start a computer Hall of Fame Realtor Rescue unit with the number of crashes I have had in a 25 year Southern Maryland Real Estate Career. Each time I learn something invaluable. Each time my skill levels go thru the roof one more notch. Each time I have been backed up but could have done it better because I learned a step I had inadvertently skipped. I am the IT department. So don't get any ideas I can pass the buck. The bucks stops here. So here are the simple things I have learned in a Readers Digest Format for backing up while full time working as a Southern Maryland Realtor on the run.
Yacking about Backing up your Computer...Back up all different kinds of ways. Because when one way fails and then the second way has a hitch and glitch, the third way comes thru like a charm. Don't argue, just do it. Like every couple of years when I get a new laptop, because they blow up on me about year two to three, I demote the main laptop but keep it up and running and current. That way, when I back up data, I test it on the spare laptop right then and there. No hitches. Nada. Flash drives work for this just great. Hit your database, your Quick books, and your top 50 docs on a large flash drive. Me, I have two because I am THE self anointed Queen of Crash.
Yacking about Backing up your Computer...Then back up on Carbonite. It's sixty bucks plus you can access your docs online anywhere for any laptop. That alone is enough to get motivated plus their service has improved big time with phone support that's very helpful.
Yacking about Backing up your Computer...So plan C as in Cheryl. That above is not enough. Nope, get a plan C for when you blow up Plan A and blow past Plan B. For me Plan C is to upgrade EMC Retrospect for $29 per laptop and get free tech help for 30 days. This will enable me to put everything on a local hard drive. Then if Carbonite is lagging or sagging, the data is in my hands.
But what is new today is PLAN D. PLAN D is I dare these machines to get past me on this one. I saw a new software beta program on www.Iomega.com last night. It enables you with a new Iomega hard drive at roughly $115 to clone your entire laptop on the small drive and then take it with you to hook up any computer to act like it is yours. Then it synchs any new stuff back to your original computer. OMG, am I dreaming? Beta, I am on! No need to guess my next move. Like I said, this is PLAN D, as in I dare these machines to get past me on this one. Meanwhile, today I am in the Southern Md Trenches recovering from another career computer crash. But data I have, you betcha! The rest of it I will figure out.
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