Here is a great website offering a free 2GB online service totally freeBackup 2GB of files for free and always have a copy away from your laptop and always receoverable!https://mozy.com/home
Alternatively pay $4.95 per month for an unlimited backup service!
Its very quick and easy to setup and works on Mac and Windows.

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If you have a small site or  a blog and want to create regular backups, you could use your Gmail account for that, but lets say it starts to clog up your inbox or even worse it starts to use up your storage space. A friend of mine does it brilliantly. A filter (rule) on [...]

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Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true.
Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had not [...]

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I was trying to delete some archived files from our file server today but kept running into a “Can not delete this file” error. It didn’t give me any more details than that when I tried to delete the archived files.
I tried to change the permissions and change the ownership on the files so that [...]

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- a tutorial on backups
I dont think you can ever realise how important it is to backup your files until the first time you lose them… I have had many people ask for me to recover data from a crashed computer because they have never backed up their computer. Products are being produced all the [...]

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As my hard drive size has gotten bigger it has become easier to fill it up with sometimes useless stuff. Even when the stuff is not useless, it can still be hard to manage all the files on my computer’s hard drive and know how much space on the hard drive is actually being taken [...]

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