Quick, Backup Awareness Month is almost over
June 29, 2006
June is/was Backup Awareness Month. Who knew?
I guess I was subliminally motivated last week when I posted my urging on backing up personal data… Personal Chaos: Backup your data. I mean it! NOW!
Hard drive manufacturers Maxtor and Seagate banded together to spread the word.
BackupAwareness.com
Here are a few highlights in case the site goes away:
Backup Best Practices
Becoming a diligent backer upper is easy when you do it right.
Develop a backup schedule.
The easiest way to remember to do something is to make it routine.Back up everything.
The size of today’s external hard drives has made it easier than ever to back up all of your data to one location.Give yourself room to grow.
When selecting a backup solution, we recommend investing in storage that’s twice the size of your internal hard drive.Back up automatically.
Set it and forget it. Use a solution that’s easy to set up and provides automatic backups.Rotate backups.
Simply backing up to a local hard drive gives you a solid, base level of protection. You may also want to protect yourself in case of an earthquake, fire, flood, or theft by backing up to two separate drives and rotating them one at a time to an off-site location.Don’t procrastinate.
Sadly, most people learn that they need to be backing up their data from a bitter, costly experience. Protect yourself today so you won’t be sorry tomorrow.
I also heard via the Mac Geek Gab podcast that The Mac Observer has put out a comprehensive backup guide. Definitely check it out. They documented strategies for different user types, software and what to do in case of emergency. A must read!
My personal favorite external hard drive is the Seagate ST3400601CB-RK 400 GB External Hard Drive FireWire/USB 2.0
What do you think? Please post your comments below. Thanks.
-Roland
Roland Reinhart is an interactive marketing professional. His observations can be found at Chaos365.com and AdMadMan.com.
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