This is nerdy…. but worthwhile. Never underestimate how important backups are. Most people never really realize this until it’s too late. I lost six years worth of notebooks and diaries when my little brother accidentally dropped my laptop six years ago. Gone. Forever. I felt like I’d lost part of my soul. Ever since I’ve backed up my important files. At first I backed up onto an external hard-drive. This works, but it’s a bit of a pain in the ass, needing to plug the drive in and manually transfer files.
About two years ago I discovered Mozy, a free downloadable program which automatically backs up your PC/Mac. Now if your Hard Drive dies, your Macbook gets stolen or you get drunk and stupidly delete all your files you don’t need to worry. Using Mozy you can easily restore all your documents and pick up where you left off.
Mozy offers 2GB of free space to store your files online. Use this wisely: there is no point in backing up downloaded movies and music. You can download this stuff again easily and you are better off putting these space intensive files on an external hard drive where 500GB only costs £50.
Instead you should use your free Mozy account to backup mission critical files. I use Mozy to backup my computer code, my documents not yet on Google Docs, my finals notes (back when I was in college) and my Mac settings and passwords. Once you install Mozy you select what you want it to backup and that’s it – you’re done. From that point on Mozy will automatically run every day (without distracting you in any way) and backup all your files.
The beauty of Mozy is that it stores your files online. That way you can access the files anywhere – and should there be a fire in your house destroying your external harddrive, you will still have a backup of your important files available online. Now that’s conscientiousness!
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