Do you back up your data?
We often underestimate the value of data, whether it be music, photos and other types of files. Since my life took a hard digital turn, I’ve learned from the best about the importance of keeping your files backed-up. I can’t imagine my life without a solid cloud file upload app!
At first it felt like an annoying expense, now it feels more like peace of mind.
Check out these statistics about back up data, I was little surprised by some of these numbers:
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Only 10% backup daily!?!
I have to admit, if it wasn’t for the ease of cloud-based backups, I would probably land in the monthly crowd.
How do your backups fare?
Is your church office data backed up on a regular basis?
I would imagine a lot of church offices could be brought up to speed on this, as many probably find this to be an “unneeded” expense.
[via Seagate]
David says
3-2-1: 3-copies, 2-medias, 1-offsite (Crashplan)
Eric Dye says
Cool! 😀
Jonathan Blundell says
How do you like CrashPlan?
I back up to two different external drives weekly but I’ve considered using a cloud based solution.
Downside I’ve seen so far is a number of cloud services will only back up what’s still on your computer. So if I have 2 GB of photos and I back them up automatically to the cloud and then delete them off my computer, the service doesn’t keep the files – it just continually makes an active backup of what’s on my computer at that moment.
Eric Dye says
How much data are you talking about?
Jonathan Blundell says
Well I have two 2 TB external drives I backup to. They’re both around 25-25% full at the moment. My wife probably has a couple hundred GB of photos on her Macbook that aren’t getting backed up at all. So right now I’d guess between 300 and 500GB.
Eric Dye says
Honestly, I’ve been a little disappointed at how long it’s taking Crashplan to get everything initially backed-up. For my daily files I use Dropbox, as these files are changed a lot. For long term storage, like old photos or files I won’t be changing, I use Amazon Glacier (https://churchm.ag/amazon-glacier/). Crashplan is my back-up, back-up, while all this is going on, and like you, I’m using two external drives (for everything except my Dropbox files).
Jonathan Blundell says
Interesting – I hadn’t seen Glacier. That deserves a good look.
Eric Dye says
For sure. When you use it with an app like Arq, it’s the perfect long term file storage system.
Daniel says
I tell coworkers, “You don’t have to back up everything, just the stuff you want to keep.”
Eric Dye says
Brilliant.