By 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 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 readingHappy New Year everyone! I hope you had a great one and are ready and roaring to go for 2011. As part of my annual review, I was looking back at my logs for sales through Amazon.com, and I thought you might be interested in the top 10 products that DocumentSnap readers bought through Amazon […]
Continue readingOnline backup vendor Carbonite has recently rolled out an update to their client software, Carbonite 4.0. Sadly, the Carbonite 4.0 update is for Windows only, but the company has stated that the Mac version is in the works. If you’re an existing Carbonite customer, they’re in the process of rolling out the update. If you’re […]
Continue readingAs many people know, I am a big believer in a multi-pronged approach to backing up your data. Yes I am a fan of online backup, but it is good to have your backup local as well. You can never have your important data in too many locations. Most people, myself included, start out with […]
Continue readingMany people know that Dropbox is great for syncing up your files between different computers. The other day I was thinking about how in the pre-Hootsuite days I used Dropbox to sync my TweetDeck groups between machines, and I thought I’d look into some other creative uses that people have come up with. Here are […]
Continue readingA while ago, a reader (Boba Fett to be exact – I guess intergalactic bounty hunters need to back their stuff up too) suggested that amongst the other backup providers that I mention, I should talk about CrashPlan. Since I know better than to cross the Fett (look what happened to Han), that’s exactly what […]
Continue readingIf you’re a Carbonite online backup customer, they’ve released yet another way to get at your files when away from your computer. The company has released a Carbonite iPhone App (it works on iPod Touches as well). From the CEO of Carbonite: The Carbonite app gives me access to the backed up files from each […]
Continue readingBeing on the geekier side of the spectrum (as my wife is happy to remind me as I am hooking a Mac Mini up to our TV), I really like hearing about the inner workings of the software that we use. Too often things are dumbed down so much that they aren’t actually saying anything. […]
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