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Think Outside the Backup Box

by Judith Tramayne

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Published on this site: December 12th, 2005 - See more articles from this month



If you're like me, you have loads of files which are extremely important to your Internet business.

I have these files backed up on CD, an external hard drive which is in another place, plus two different computers because I have thousands of hours invested in making these files.

But it also dawned on me, I have web hosting where I AM using less than 5% for files. I've been with this company for 7 years and they've never lost any of site information or been down more than 2 to 3 hours each year.

So I have decided to upload my Paint Shop Pro zipped files and ebook files there also.

By making a Backup Directory then doing sub-directories, I can organize my data should I ever need to download these original files. If I name my zip files correctly (using dates), I can constantly rotate my backups.

Or not because I might want to keep the original files to prove dates I created them if there was ever a copyright issue.

I would also include a .htaccess file that would not allow people to access these directories.

The reason I decided this might be a good idea is because a woman on a tech list is having trouble backing up her data because her hard drive is going bad and she can not access her CD-ROM drive but she can get onto the Internet.

So I suggested she upload her information to one of the places on the Internet. Then Bingo, it comes to me, I have the perfect place to do this also without worrying if someone could gain access to my files.

It might seem I AM overdoing my backups but hey, redoing all my work would mean thousand of dollars going down the tube. Are you in this same position? Then maybe you too should think outside the backup box if you are already paying for space and haven't used it.



Judith Tramayne's site is http://www.agoodread.com which has free books, articles and link pages you'll love. She also writes excellent "how-to" books for her Art & Book Club Members.




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