How do YOU Back up Your Computer? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-28-07
Here it is the end of another year of backups—almost time to make those special year-end copies of your important data to store with your tax records. I thought I’d do something a bit different for...
View ArticleCheers for Carbonite (and Some Vacation Musings): FileSlinger™ Backup...
This week’s guest contributor is Confident Marketer Sue Painter, but first a brief update from Yours Truly. The Ur-Guru and I have been traveling a lot over the past few weeks. As an incurable geek, I...
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Twice as Fast May Be Fast Enough for Memeo: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder...
Once in a while when I test a backup product for this Reminder, I get anomalous results. The anomaly usually takes the form of bizarrely slow performance. The causes are hard to pinpoint, but my chief...
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Quadruple the Backup from Buffalo
Back in 2007, my BFF Jay Pechek sent me a bunch of Maxtor drives. Maxtor’s external hard drives are supposed to have a 5-year warranty, but there’s a little trick with this Free Stuff I get from PR...
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GFI Makes Titan Backup Free for Home Users
In the course of investigating Memeo for last week’s Backup Reminder, I discovered I had a problem. I’d been using Memeo to back up my F drive, Freya (a Seagate FreeAgent Go USB drive) to my L drive,...
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Adventures in Data Recovery
A couple of years ago, an associate of the Ur-Guru’s in Europe bought a 1 Tb Buffalo DriveStation Duo to back up his business data. Last week it stopped working. “I’ve been using it in a RAID 1 array...
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Buffalo Goes Metro in San Francisco
A few days ago I got a phone call from my BFF Jay Pechek at Buffalo Technology, apologizing profusely for not responding immediately to my initial queries about Raid Troubles in Europe and his...
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Just Add Water? Memeo Instant Backup
When I first heard about Memeo Instant Backup, I objected that no program that backed up your entire hard drive could possibly be “instant.” Hard drives are getting bigger and bigger, so copying them...
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Backups on the Run
I spent last week bouncing around between conferences and meetings, which meant there was no time to review any new backup software, but all that zipping back and forth with the netbook and the iriver...
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Plugged into the Cloud with CTERA
The first time I saw an announcement for the CTERA CloudPlug, I was puzzled. “Cloud-Attached Storage” is a catchy phrase, but what did it mean? Could I just plug the device into a wall socket, connect...
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