This video on Seeding CrashPlan Backups is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. If you are using CrashPlan to back up to a remote drive (either on your network or across the Internet), you can really speed up your initial backup by copying […]
Continue readingThis video on CrashPlan Backup Frequency is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. Online backup services are great because they run in the background and you don’t need to think about it. However, sometimes you want to have some control over when and […]
Continue readingI have been using CrashPlan for a few months, both as my online backup solution as well as an offsite backup at my friend’s house. I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with it, but I have to admit that I’ve missed one feature: the ability to get at my backed up files from my mobile […]
Continue readingThis video on How To Backup Your Computer is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. I need to apologize to my ex-girlfriend because the same day that I made this video, she had a catastrophic drive failure and lost everything. Guess I should […]
Continue readingOne thing I have always appreciated about Shawn Blanc‘s writing is that when he decides to write on a topic, he goes extremely in-depth. This has been especially true since he went full-time writing for his site. Recently he did a deep-dive into the topic of online backup. It is a great read, and he […]
Continue readingBy now you know that if you are going to be going paperless, backing up your documents is critically important. At the very least I recommend having a local backup on an external hard drive, but ideally you should have at least two backups: one local, and one offsite. For offsite backup, using an online […]
Continue readingThree weeks ago, I wrote a tip in the DocumentSnap newsletter recommending that if you are going to be using cloud backup or syncing services, it is worth being aware of any security implications this might have and what your options are with respect to encryption. It turns out that my timing was impeccable, because […]
Continue readingYou may or may not know it, but today has been declared World Backup Day 2011. Declared by who, you ask? A small group from the website Reddit, which is good enough for me. On the World Backup Day site, they go through why you should backup and how to do it. It’s all really […]
Continue readingSometimes when we are trying to figure out how to set up our paperless system, it can be helpful to see how others do things. Macworld contributor Lex Friedman recently wrote an article about his own backup plan. For what it is worth, my setup is almost exactly the same as his. The only difference […]
Continue readingWhenever I do a post about online backup or file syncing, I almost always get a comment or a tweet like this one. Essentially, “hey, how come you didn’t mention my favorite: SugarSync?” I was happy to see that SugarSync was at Macworld Expo, so I dropped by their booth to ask them what the […]
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