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Cloud (or online) backup services have become quite popular over the last few years. This article explains what cloud backups can do for you, and what to look when shopping for a cloud backup service.
All, right, so you’ve heard it over and over and again, and you know it’s true: you need to make regular backups of your stuff. But how? What options do typical computer users have? In the past few years, the options for preservation and backups have expanded quite a bit, giving users an enormous array […]
An introduction to the “Keeping Your
This past week offered up a little dose of panic to an estimated tens of thousands of users to Google’s free Gmail service, when they logged in to discover that all of their e-mail was missing. This event should be seen as an opportunity for users of Cloud services to reflect on how important that stored data is to them, and what impact it would have on their lives if that content were lost.
One of the topics I like to bring up in the discussion of preserving digital data is the idea of a Digital Dark Age… the notion of a period in our historic knowledge that ends up getting lost due to a failure to plan and preserve our early digital content. The New Scientist, however, recently […]