• GSquared (1/7/2013)


    sqlpadawan_1 (1/7/2013)


    With a terabyte of storage for less than $100, free utilities like Sync Toys from Microsoft, and unlimited online backup services as cheap as $60\yr, I will never understand the mentality of not backing up your data. I haven't lost a laptop, but I have lost the hard drive. With my Carbonite backup, I was back up and running with no losses within hours.

    Of course, even that isn't completely foolproof. Carbonite lost data for some customers a couple of years ago. Bing/Google "carbonite data loss" and you'll find the news articles about it. Summary here: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/03/25/more-on-carbonites-data-loss/

    However, the odds of Carbonite (or DropBox or SkyDrive or whatever) losing your data is MUCH, MUCH lower than the odds of losing a laptop or having a hard drive fail.

    Very true, and you'd hope you wouldn't lose both at the same time.

    I keep a backup of my laptop handy, and run one before I leave town. I also make sure I have a third around. I need a remote backup like Carbonite as well, just to be sure, since I'm somewhat depending on Dropbox right now as my final backup.