We've mentioned this automatic data backup service before in one of our monthly newsletters but have recently become even more impressed with it. Last week we had a complete hard drive failure on one of our office computers and had to reinstall a new drive so losing ALL the data on the old one. BUT, we were back in action within about 2 hours (after installing a new hard drive) as our DataDepostBox backup service really came up trumps.
We're sorry to say it but 75% of people reading this are chumps when it comes to backing up their data, in effect they either don't do it or 'aim' to backup at regular intervals, ie they backup every Monday morning at 10am but normally forget! But ask yourself this simple question 'how much trouble would your life be if you suddenly lost all your data with NO way of recovering it?' For many people the answer is a real disaster.
Automate Your Backup Automatically!
What the boys at DataDepostBox have done is automate the process so you NEVER have to worry about being backup up. Install their tiny piece of software and it's always working in the background backing up everything as you go along. Then if you have a hard drive failure or some punk steals your laptop you have nothing to worry about. And that's only the first piece of good news.
The second is the cost, just $0.01 per month per megabyte. We'd estimate that most people have between 50MB-100MB of important information, Word/Excel files, emails, internet favourites, Diary etc which means the monthly bill would be $0.50-$1, or $6-$12 a year!
But I Have a Recordable DVD or External Hard Drive Etc
This is the argument that many people fall back on when questioned about backing up.
True, hardware like that can help but then you've got to remember to backup which is actually a very boring thing to do. Also what happens if you forget for 2 weeks or there's a fire/theft? With DataDepostBox you can write a letter before lunch, go get a sandwich and when you come back that file will have been backup without you having to do a thing!
Do yourself a favour, sub-contract your backing up to a company like DataDepostBox - They offer a free 1 month trial and like we said it takes about 3 minutes to setup and then everything works in the background.
