I’m a bit paranoid about backing up. However today one of my disks failed. 300 GB! Now most was copies but I didn’t have a backup of about 1 GB of photos I’ve taken over the years. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

I’m hoping that my previous PC, whose disk I erased (but not wiped) will have photos up until last year when I got the new one, but thats at least 1 holiday shots lost. Sigh.

Anyway, earlier this year I tried an online service and it went very well until it started to become a bit error prone for no good reasons. I emailed their support and when they did nowt, emailed their MD. If you are reading this, you know who you are M***.com. It was not a happy experience. I tried reinstalling the software and their servers lost 25 GB of backed up data. Tch tch tch…

That put me off online backup (to put it mildly) but I’m now trying Carbonite. It works on just one PC per sub but that means unlimited. Now I don’t want all 800 GB backed up but a small portion would be nice. It started 30 minutes ago and has nearly 200,000 files to munch through. About 15.5 GB. So far it’s done 4% The picture shows it 15 minutes ago. Anyway it’s easy to use, just right click and select files or folders in Windows Explorer so I’ll come back to this and let you know how I get on. First impressions are very favourable and I feel almost happy to fork out about £25 a year. But I’ve got a two week trial so I’ll give it a good run to start with.

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