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Web Backup: A "Safe" Place in Cyberspace to Store Your Digital Valuables
Goldie Peabody has run an art business from her Michigan home since before Jackson Pollock picked up a paint brush. Down in the basement there's a brick kiln where Goldie keeps all her documents and sentimental photos. "In case the house ever burns down, it's all safe," she explains. "The kiln can withstand temperatures over 1000 degrees."
Maybe you think Goldie's a little paranoid. But if you've ever lost a computer file the way Goldie lost valuables in the Great Depression, you might like to have a kiln, too. That way you could back up your files to disk or tape, and store them down in the basement, confident neither fire nor flood nor vermin could destroy them.
So, short of building a basement kiln, what do you do with your backup files? Send them to Mom? Drop them off at a safe deposit every week? What a hassle! Enter online data storage.
Several online services offer ways to store your digital data on the Internet. Just send your files to one of these Web wizards, and they'll safeguard your digital valuables in their giant cyber kingdom somewhere over the rainbow (or wherever cyberspace is).
If your office ever blows away in a tornado (knock wood it doesn't!), you can easily retrieve every file you ever sent to the service for safekeeping. Usually you have unlimited 24-hour online access to your files from anywhere with Net access! Great for presentations when you aren't in Kansas anymore.
With easily downloadable software, these services can automate the backup process for you, storing and sending your files while you sleep. And the software transmits the files in a secret code, so you can rest assured no one's reading your diary or accounts receivable on some PC down the street.
How do you get started safeguarding your files via the Net? Check out one of these services:
Driveway -- Driveway lets you store and access files from any Web-connected computer. You can also share documents, photos, MP3s, and more with friends and colleagues. It's safe and easy to use! And it's FREE.
eVault.com -- Offers automatic "set it and forget it" operation with total security, starting at $15.00/month.
@NetDisk -- FREE @netdisk.com provides reliable, secure, and off-site data storage via the internet. Just like
the hard disk on your computer only online.Data Protection Service -- DPS specializes in providing business-level remote backup service to companies that know how critical data integrity is to their business. Starting at $24.95 a month.
Goldie Peabody -- Ask her about building a high-security kiln or hand-painted china. Not reachable online till she gets the 1929 Singer sewing machine off her desk.
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