Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: PureClean Window Cleaning Ltd on November 03, 2011, 09:44:07 am
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My laptop died on me the other day (blue screen of death) but i had forgot to backup my george file for one month! i usually use dropbox, but its not uploading the file straightaway. unless you manually go into the site and copy paste it.
my mate fixed the laptop for me thank goodness, so i was able to retrieve my data, and i was more careful with the backups, but laptop died again (refused to turn on)
i went to dropbox and found the file was 5 days old, so still not good, but managed to fix laptop again so all good, luckily!
anyway the reason im writing this is to help anyone go through the same nightmare.
what i do now after updating customer details, is go to the backup file, right click, send to mail recipient, then send to my website mail box, only takes seconds to do, and i thought i would share my little tip!
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Spend £59 on two years of Backblaze backups. Backs up everything that you choose on your PC over broadband (I back up everything, photos, all documents, etc). You set it up and forget it completely.
Restore data over the internet or, if you lose the lot, have a disk burned with all your data on it.
You never need to remember to back stuff up, it's just handled for you.
Tax-deductible, as well.
Vin
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that is tempting especially for photos and music. i managed to delete all my photos the other day too, luckily you can restore them with software. my wife nearly killed me! i felt sick when i did that!
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that is tempting especially for photos and music. i managed to delete all my photos the other day too, luckily you can restore them with software. my wife nearly killed me! i felt sick when i did that!
Yep, it's awful, isn't it?
I signed up after very nearly losing everything when a disk went without warning. I just thought that at a price less than a new disk, it was a bargain.
It'll pay off big time the next time things go wrong (which they will).
Vin
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George has got online backup? It's cheap as well.
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I e-mail my spreadsheet to myself and I also do regular print outs and file 'em.
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I also e-mail to myself every week.
Also paper based back up of when all houses last done/money owed.
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Yes, emailing stuff to yourself will work if you use a web-based email system.
The beauty of the ten bob a week solution that is Backblaze is that you have to do nothing at all once it's set up and it will save everything on your PC every time it's changed. I'm prepared to pay for that convenience and safety; I'm sure others aren't.
Vin