Why Online Backups Are Worth the Expense

Richard Lee — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:42:02 +0000

You never know how much irreplaceable information is on your computer until you lose it. I used to make backups of my data all the time. I used rewritable disks, thumb drives and even floppies. But finding my backup when I needed it was almost impossible. I often had ten or more copies of a paper I was writing and rewriting. Figuring out which of my many backups was the most current could take hours. Even when I found the most current backup, it wasn’t anywhere close to what I had lost.
Today I use an online backup service provided by Pilarcc. I can tell them what files and folders I want backed up. I can even tell them when to backup my data. My personal computer is a Mac and I have it backup once a week. I backup my work computer every day. Best of all, everything happens automatically. I don’t have to remember to do it and I don’t have to set aside time to supervise the process.

Just last week my Vista machine crashed. I had been working on a presentation for more than a month. The hard drive was completely dead and so was I if I didn’t have that presentation finished by the end of the week. In the past, it may have taken me days or even weeks to get my presentation into the shape it was in when my computer crashed. This time it was just a few hours. Most of that time was spent getting a new computer up and running. It was just minutes to get back all of my data.

Without a doubt, signing up with Pillarcc was the best decision I have made in quite some time. Imagine if my Mac had crashed and I lost all of our family photos. I could spend the rest of my married life sleeping on the couch. Thanks to Pillarcc, I won’t have to worry about that. The piece of mind I gain is worth its weight in gold.

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Why Online Backups Are Worth the Expense