Backup Hard Disk Crashed Today
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Hard disks crash often…nothing new and today it was my turn. Backup is what every educated IT professional, business and computer users should make a habit…but what if your backup hard disk crashes? Weird isn’t it? It happened to me and this explains why one should opt for off-site secondary online backup apart from offline or on-site backup. Online backup adds an extra layer of data protection and recovery.
Well, I had a 6 year old Seagate 20GB ATA33 hard drive which was connected as a backup drive. I knew it would fail anytime…but the drive was lying around and I thought why not put it to use? I did so and didn’t expect much reliability from this 6 year old horse. Recently, the PC was taking a bit of time to boot up, probably due to the ailing hard drive. Once in a while, the PC would freeze while accessing the HDD, mainly while opening My Computer. I got an indication that it’d fail soon.
Sensing trouble, I moved off required files to the primary HDD and waited for it to give away. Though it didn’t have anything important - some music, script backups, downloads, junk…I moved the required ones in time. Quite interestingly, I didn’t hear any strange noise, etc. till the disk finally crashed. This morning, the PC won’t boot up and the HDD LED remained lighted. Now I heard the grinding noise of the head crashing on the platters…you’re dead now my old friend! 
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One thing you can do to avoid this type of problem is to get an online backup service. The one that I have and certainly recommend is called carbonite. For 50 dollars you can backup every file on your computer. Since theres no physical place where your files are stored, they cant be damaged. In order to make sure your files are secure, all the files are encrypted to make sure people cant access your stuff. Carbonite was easy, cheap and effective. Try it out, you wont be sorry
Hi
I recently started backing up @ backupvaultonline.com
I’m a little nervous about offsite backup, I spoke to the guys there and they seemed for real.
They are in beta stage so i negotiated with them and got them to give me my home for free if I took a 50 gig business plan..
What u guys think?
The online backing services could be good if data involved is less than 5 Gigs. However, for data in access of that, using newer disks such as Blu Ray could probably be a better option.
Rivky,
I checked out www.onlinebackupvault.com, and i mentioned Balendu point…Its not an issue with them…they have clients with 1 file that 20 gig big.. they said whats unique about them is
1. they can backup open files
2. after the intial backup they backup by BYTE not by file, so they can backup only the changes within a file