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| I don't back up my entire hard drive to the cloud, but i do it for my data. I have Time Machine backing up my entire computer to a local hard drive every hour, but for other data for our farm, like spread sheets and pdf files ( I scan all of our invoices and paperwork now) I have it stored on DropBox. DB makes it available on any of our computers. phones and iPads as well as having a back up in the cloud that is available from any computer with internet service. I used to store my Quick Books data on DB but recently switched to using a server my accountant has on Cloud9 for our QB. This lets her have access to our files any time she needs to check out something and it provides me with a cloud back up option as well as being able to use QB from multiple locations such as the house and shop at the same time. DropBox is pretty simple to use, simply set the folder that your software normally stores it's data in to a DropBox folder and any time you close out or store something it's automatically stored in DB.
I don't worry about backing up my entire hard drive because I can always download and install the software again, it's the data that's important.
The only thing that I don't keep a copy of in the clouds is my photo's. I have around 125 gig of photo's and it just gets too expensive and it takes too long to upload them on my internet connection. They do back up to my local hard drive with Time Machine and 3 or 4 times a year I make a copy of them on a portable hard drive and give to my Daughter to keep in her house 90 miles away. As cheap as hard drives are I just keep two of them and then refresh one when she's going to be by and give her a fresh up to date one. | |
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"Cloud" HD backup services?
