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Review: MegaBackup for Mac OS X

November 21, 2015 / Dave Taylor / Mac & MacOS Help / 3 Comments
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You’re backing up your Mac system every day, right? I mean, sure they’re reliable, but what if you lost it? What if there was a system glitch and the hard drive was wiped? What if someone stole your system entirely?

That’s why you should already have a backup system in place. If you’re a mobile worker like me, however, you aren’t always in the office. In fact you might not even have an office.

Which is why MegaBackup is a really interesting solution with its simple user interface, cloud-based storage and unlimited space for your critical photos, video, documents, files and more.

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Solve your backup hassles with iDrive

September 1, 2015 / Dave Taylor / Computer & Internet Basics / 7 Comments
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Backing up your data is a pain, whether you’re on a Mac or a PC. Sure there are software packages that can automate the backup process, but the physical drive can be expensive and a hassle to work with. And cloud backup? Those can end up being quite expensive.

Big data centers and smart tech people know how to solve the problem with network appliances, hard drives that live directly on the network instead of requiring that you plug them into your computer to do a backup.

And iDrive is offering just that, with redundant cloud backup space too, for an incredibly low price just for AskDaveTaylor readers…

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Review: Western Digital MyCloud network storage

May 21, 2014 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / No Comments
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Local storage is only accessible when you’re in the office or otherwise nearby, and cloud storage has the problem of security: who’s running that storage service and what are they doing with your data? Enter a third category of storage, personal cloud storage, that seeks to offer the best of both worlds. A review of the Western Digital MyCloud personal cloud storage device.

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Review: Backblaze Cloud Backup for Mac/PC

August 8, 2011 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews, Mac & MacOS Help / 1 Comment

I’m diligent with my backups. Probably more so than just about anyone who reads this. I have a constant backup to a 500GB network hard disk via Apple’s set-and-forget Time Machine and I do manual monthly backups to a different 1TB drive, snapshots of my entire disk. Insurance.

But my backup strategy has the same limitation of most people’s approach: if something happens to my house (a thorough break-in and theft, fire, meteor strike, etc) (alright, the last is less likely than the former!) then I’m hosed. Worst case scenario: Someone rips off my laptop while I’m on a business trip and simultaneously there’s a fire and my house burns down. No backups. Nothing. Including the literally tens of thousands of irreplaceable photos of my children and our lives together, as well as my travels, manuscripts for my books, and much more.

The solution is something that wasn’t an option even five years ago: a backup into the so-called cloud, where the data all lives in a secure data storage facility. I’ve looked at options, but with almost 400GB of data in my personal document folder, pictures, movies, etc., the cost was prohibitive. Then a friend mentioned she really liked Backblaze and I saw that they offered unlimited backup space on their cloud servers for $5/mo. That’s cheap enough. But does it really work?

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