Backing Up is Good to Do

Ya, now I'm taking an evening to back up my precious laptop. Backing up is a tough biz. It seems to be more complicated than it needs to be. Backing up to an external hard drive (hd) is easy. But when you're backing up a laptop you need to keep it tethered to a USB or firewire cable to make sure it stays backed up (or at least you have to make sure it's tethered when you go to bed). But what if you have a house fire? You really should have an off-site backup. We use Mozy.com for our off-site backup. We pay a yearly rate for unlimited backup but that only allows you to back up one computer. The way around that for my house of 5 computers, is to have each comptuer back up to a folder on Erin's desktop PC. And have that PC back up to the Internet later that night. The only problem we've run into is that Mozy has a hard time telling what's new this backup and what's not new. So it tries to back up all 15 GB each time. Not cool. It takes a special mojo to get back up done reliably well. Hopefully I'll learn more as this goes on.