Hi moms,
Any tips on how I back up my PC computer files onto a free internet service? I've heard of the cloud, etc., but I'm kinda clueless. I lost a lot of documents last year due to a virus and we now have a new computer. Figure I should finally back up documents, photos, etc.
Thanks!
I would not trust anything like that saying it is free.
We use a combination of Carbonite and back up drives (My Passport). Neither are free, but they are worth every penny.
Spend 30 or $40 on an External hard drive.
It's worth spending a few dollars.
ETA: I use Dropbox for my company when sharing important large data files with our legal and tax counsel. I pay about $15 a month for the service.
I use Carbonite and it is NOT free.
NO way would I rely on something "free" when it comes to the data and pictures I have stored in my laptop.
The external hard drive is another good choice but again, not free.
Google Drive. If you have a Gmail account, you have a Google Drive.
Just buy an external hard drive and back up to that. It's easy.
We paid $80ish for an external hard drive that holds like 500GB or something like that. I backup all our pictures and my recipes. lol It would be the first thing I grabbed in a fire. Good luck.
Disk is cheap.
Buy the storage you need and set it up as a drive.
Then back up your data to your external drive.
We don't trust storing to sites or the cloud.
People have lost their data when sites like that just 'go away'.
Your photos, your tax returns, your music - you've got some personal data that I WOULD NOT TRUST in anyone else s hands and I don't want anyone hacking into my stuff.
Having your own external drive puts/keeps you in control of your data and archives.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2069900/find-the-right-bac...
We have icloud just because we have our devices from apple, but that's just photos I take on my phone etc.
For everything - we use an external hard drive.
I will do free downloads, open source, but I would never count on free to back up my data.
I would pick up an external hard drive. They are really cheap, under 50 bucks, and usually have the software installed to mirror your hard drive which makes it pretty easy to back up.
As Cheryl says, there is dropbox which I do use but I do not use it to back up all my files. It was never meant to be used for that and they have no duty of care to you because you do not pay.
You could use dropbox - just create an account at dropbox.com and upload your stuff to it. You get x amount of storage for free but you can buy additional storage if you need it.
ETA: I see others are not a fan of "free" storage. I just want to add that I've been using dropbox for free for several years and have NEVER had a problem.
