Category Archives for "Backup"

CrashPlan Alternatives – I’m Changing My Online Backup

In late August 2017, I received a nasty birthday present. I learned that CrashPlan, my beloved online backup service, was shutting down its Home plan. I have been a CrashPlan user since 2011, so needless to say I was not happy about this. I knew I needed to look at CrashPlan alternatives, but frankly it […]

Ignore The Rule Of 321 At Your Peril

Recently on the DocumentSnap newsletter I wrote about an important concept in protecting your paperless documents: The Rule of 321. The general concept is that you want your data in as many places as possible: Have at least 3 copies of your data – In other words, have your original PDFs (1 copy) and 2 […]

12 Days Of Paperless Gifts – Online Backup

This is Day 7 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you’d like to drop some hints, this series is for you. Don’t worry, the regular DocumentSnap tips will still be flowing. Back on Day 5 I said that […]

12 Days Of Paperless Gifts – Personal Cloud Storage

This is Day 6 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you’d like to drop some hints, this series is for you. Don’t worry, the regular DocumentSnap tips will still be flowing. The holy grail of going paperless is […]

12 Days Of Paperless Gifts – External Hard Drives

This is Day 5 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you’d like to drop some hints, this series is for you. Don’t worry, the regular DocumentSnap tips will still be flowing. Friends don’t let friends go paperless without […]

Sync.com – A Canadian Dropbox Alternative That Embraces Privacy

What do you do when you want to synchronize your files to the cloud, but you don’t want the cloud service to have access to them and you don’t (no offense to my wonderful American readers) want them stored in the United States? For years this was my “rainbow unicorn” I was searching for – […]

Introducing The Paperless Security Guide

Do you know what the most important part of going paperless is? It’s not choosing a good scanner. It’s not how you name your documents. It’s not even how you set up your folders. If you ask me, the most important part of going paperless is making sure that your documents are protected. All the […]

Backup ScanSnap Profiles Or Move To A New Computer – Mac

Many users very happily use the ScanSnap Quick Menu to do their scanning. It is certainly an easy way to scan. However, if you want to be more efficient with your scanning, you may want to look into setting up ScanSnap Profiles. A Profile is a pre-defined group of ScanSnap settings.[1]. Once you set them […]

Backup ScanSnap Profiles Or Move To A New Computer – Windows

A great feature of the ScanSnap Windows scanner software is the ability to create Profiles, or pre-defined groups of scanner settings. They allow you to process your documents quickly and efficiently.[1] Once you get your ScanSnap Manager Profiles set up just the way you want them, how do you back them up? If you get […]