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Backup Solutions for the Busy Stay at Home Business Mom

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Walter Stevens is a contributor at Free-backup.info — the home of the popular Amazon S3 based tool for online remote backup — Back2zip. This article can be found at http://free-backup.info/backup-solutions-for-the-busy-stay-at-home-business-mom.html

Backup and the Busy Stay at Home Business Mom

For any computer user backup is important, but for the busy stay at home business mom it can be vital. Business moms not only need to keep their family in order but also have a home business to run, and if they use a computer for their business it is vital that they have access to the files that are essential to the running of their business. Business moms have no time to waste with the loss of important data due to a computer crash or virus, and for them backup is of vital import. Fortunately there are many possible solutions to your backup needs.

Online Backup

One of the growing tools with the growth of the internet is that of online backup. Online backup allows you to store your files online in reserve apart from your computer in case the worst happens. Then, you will be able to download your files just as you saved them and restore your computer to normalcy with all of your files returned.

This is a very powerful backup method, and also has the bonus feature of allowing you to access your files from any computer in the world by downloading them onto whichever system you are currently using. With new features being added to online backup systems all the time, and with storage amounts and uploading ease increasing as well, online backup can be a powerful solution for all of your backup needs.

CD-Rs, DVD-Rs and Your Computer Backup

New technologies are being created all the time that can prove very powerful for your backup needs. CD-Rs and DVD-Rs are two of the most powerful backup tools invented yet. While it used to be that floppy disks used to be the most common tools for backup, they are quickly becoming obsolete. After all, why bother with a floppy disk that can hold just over a megabyte of data when you can use a CD-R or a DVD-R which can hold hundreds or thousands of times as much data all on a single disk?

It is not uncommon to walk into a computer store these days and not even see a single computer which even has a floppy disk drive on it.

CD-Rs have been a round for a while, and there are now even CD-RWs which allow you to write your disk more than once. One drawback to using a CD-R or a DVD-R is that once you have written information onto your disk, the disk is finished and nothing new can be added to it and nothing can be taken away. This is not true with CD-RWs or DVD-RWs, which can be theoretically rewritten as many times as you require.

While they have not yet advanced to the stage of manipulability that a format such as the floppy drive can boast, this is a great advancement and allows for the far greater storage space that a floppy drive can never hope to obtain. You will find that DVD-Rs and DVD burners are more expensive than their CD burner predecessors, but this price is falling all the time and in the future will come to overtake CD-ROMs, so it is a good investment to make if you are serious about your backup.

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Options in Data Backup for Today’s Users

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

James Fohl is a contributor at Free-backup.info — the home of the popular Amazon S3 based Online Backup software — Back2zip. This resources is also available at http://free-backup.info/options-in-data-backup-for-todays-users.html

Data Backup options for today’s computer users.

Lately is seems that companies are releasing new computer data backup products every other day. It seems that only a decade ago the only option a user had for creating a backup of his personal data was to go purchase a large box of floppy disks, and spend an evening swapping disks.

Both floppy disks and Iomega Zip disks are useless backup tools because a user’s data today far exceeds the limitations of these devices.

Today though there are several options a user can utilize in order to backup their data. While floppy disks are still used today, their capacity of 1.44 megabytes is not going to backup much. The same goes for the old famous Zip 100 disks made by Iomega. They may be able to store one hundred megabytes of data per disk, but the transfer speed is incredibly slow, not to mention that one hundred megabytes is considered peanuts to today’s computer user.

CDs and DVDs are excellent choices for users wishing to create read only backups of their data.

Next we have optical media; CDs and DVDs. A CD can typically backup 700 megabytes of data, while a DVD can backup 4.7 gigabytes of data. Both of these options are perfect for the user who wants to make a read only backup of their data.

But what about the users who wish to make a backup copy of their data, and later on modify the same data made within the backup? Once CDs and DVDs are written, they must be completely erased and all data must be rewritten (only rewritable media) which isn’t every computer user’s cup of tea.

One solution are these neat little key chains which come embedded with flash memory. They plug into the USB port of any computer and require no drivers to be detected in an operating system. There small size isn’t mated with a small size of memory; devices holding several gigabytes of data can be purchased.

These key chain devices are being manufactured by literally hundreds of companies under hundreds of different names. Each company has their own personal design, but all of the devices work in the same manner. The devices allow you to easily backup your data, and even make savable modifications with the data.

Not only are the key chains small, and big in memory size, but they are also very affordable. At the time of this writing, a 512 megabyte key chain could be purchased for $40. That two inch key chain does the same as 355 floppy disks. Which would you rather have?

Companies are creating devices with multiple flash chips to allow bigger and better personal backup devices for your data.

There are a lot of different kinds of these flash based key chains coming onto the market. Some companies have realized that a user sometimes values memory over space, and have created larger ‘key chains’ which are comprised of several of the flash memory chips. By using several flash memory chips instead of just one, the companies are able to deliver portable backup storage solutions that are not only big on specifications, but also easy on the wallet.

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