Home > Blogs > Frank Rubi > Louisiana and Alabama Condos / Homes for Sale

Backing Up Your Computer Data

By Frank Rubi

Real Estate Broker/Owner with Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC La Broker 09995688826

May 12, 2007 08:45 AM

Time to Back Up your Computer Data

If you're like me you have a ton of information on your computer. When was the last time up back up your computer? I use all Holidays such as Mother Day, and all other major holidays as reminders to back up my computer. I have an external Hard drive which requires some work on my part. I have been looking for something online for help. I found a site which charges $5.00 a month. One such service is Mozy.com. With more than one computer this is getting to be a pain so I would like to have a services that enables me to upload once a week. With broadband connections, backing up data during the night is a great option.

We have all these AR post and email, client information, paper work stored on the hard drives. We need to have them save from time to time.

Comments(16)

Comment

Show All Comments

Sort:

Joan Snodgrass

Midamerica Referral Network - Kimberling City, MO

You are so right, Frank. Scares me to think of losing all that info - but do I back it up? Well..............no.

May 12, 2007 08:58 AM

Leon Austin

Mobile Notary Services - Colorado Springs, CO

Colorado Springs Mobile Notary

Frank, I use an external hard drive too. Occasionally I'll back up some of the files onto CD-Rom, but perhaps not frequently enough. Windows keeps nagging me to backup my files. I keep ignoring it.

May 12, 2007 09:02 AM

Steven L. Smith

King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA

Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Other than just staying on top of my business, clients, realtors, etc and trying to market and be responsive, software is my next biggest chore. There is always something, from blogs at AR that vanish or crash prior to posting them, to quick books glitches, etc.

May 12, 2007 09:12 AM

Jacqulyn Richey

Prominent Realty Group - Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas Real Estate

I'd rather keep in on an external drive. Far less likely to be hacked or compromised. Just something to think about. -Charles

May 12, 2007 09:50 AM

KRISTINE CROWE

COLDWELL BANKER RESIDENTIAL BROKERAGE - Dundalk, MD

what a great idea, to do it on holidays. I'm a computer geek, so you would think that I would be doing it. But, to be honest, I forget... I will try the holiday reminder.

May 12, 2007 10:12 AM

Klaus Nicholson

ROSE ANNE ERICKSON REALTY, LLC. Columbus Ga, Ft Benning, - Columbus, GA

Realtor, Columbus Ga Homes, Fort Benning Homes

For all you folks backing up and storing on CD please be advised that in the last year some of my older CD's are no longer readable. My last external drive is now an internal drive the hardware driving it stopped functioning. I like the slave drive option. I keep all the good stuff on the slave and swap out master drives frequently. Cloning an additional drive is pretty easy to do and you always have a backup. Good Luck all.

Realtor, Columbus Ga

May 12, 2007 10:55 AM

Eric Bouler

Gardner Realtors, Licensed in La. - New Orleans, LA

Listening to your Needs

I bought an external hard drive that uploads daily. I wanted to keep my photos if I ever washed away. Frank i will have to keep on bogging as I can see you in the rear view mirror. The beignets are on me when we meet. Eric

May 12, 2007 01:29 PM

Mike Stankewich, MBA, e-PRO - ZipRealty, Inc.

ZipRealty, Inc. - Huntington Beach, CA

Frank,

Back up is so important. I had a recent computer crash, but fortunately Geek Squad was able to recover my photos, documents. and tax files.

I now have an external hard drive and mirror all my data on it so not to lose anything.

I also have a little portable hard drive to transfer information from my lap top to my desk top and vice versa.

I don't see the value of on-line storage, but it may work for some. First why spend the money. Second the security may not be sound. I had some personal files on a storage site that appeared on the search engines. I got rid of them.

May 12, 2007 01:45 PM

Marchel Peterson

Results Realty - Spring, TX

Spring TX Real Estate E-Pro

I backed up today. We had a bad experience today with HP printer software and it totally locked my computer up. We backed everythign up and then finally got it to restore to a previous day. But that aside I do back up quite a bit. Mainly because of having a computer hard drive crash and there were pictures on there that I can never retrieve again. We also back up to an external hard drive.

May 12, 2007 01:48 PM

Frank Rubi

Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC - Metairie, LA

FrankRubiRealEstate.com

Eric, Your the godfather of Loiuisana's AR group. I look forward of meeting you for a coffee.

ALL- thanks for all your words of wisdom.

May 14, 2007 01:17 AM

Jeffrey Bogert

Keller Williams NJ Metro Group - Montclair, NJ

Frank,

This is good advice. I recently had the experience of having to have everything recovered from a laptop hard drive that crashed (the marchine was only 1.5 years old). Even though I should have know better that the last back up was from a month prior. Now I do a full backup every Sunday evening and incrementals throughout the week.

Aug 15, 2007 02:31 AM

Frank Rubi

Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC - Metairie, LA

FrankRubiRealEstate.com

Jeffery, just finish backing up my laptop and desktop. It takes a few minutes but is often overlooked.

Aug 15, 2007 03:28 AM

Stephen Joos & Chris Brubaker- HouseFront

HouseFront - Denver, CO

Backing up online really seems to make the most since to me. If you back up on a hard drive there are still potential pitfalls. Like the backup HD failing (which happened to me), or in extreme cases a fire or flood could destroy the drive and then where would you be? So online offers me a restful night of sleep knowing my data is really protected.

Aug 15, 2007 08:00 AM

Frank Rubi

Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC - Metairie, LA

FrankRubiRealEstate.com

House Front, I have been considering your choice. My external hard drive which i have been using to back up travels with me. I agree about the backing online. You dont have to worry about forgetting your harddrive and floods. thanks for that point.

Aug 15, 2007 09:37 AM

Julie Neerings~Lifting Hearts ♥ Building Dreams~

Agent Referral - Salt Lake City, UT

Frank-This is an excellent reminder. Thank you so much for keeping us on track.

Aug 15, 2007 04:45 PM

Justin Chester

Help My Computer Please - Texarkana, TX

Hey i was born in Metarie!!!!

This is Good stuff.But there are alot more things we can do to keep our computers always running healthy too

Let me know if you need any help in anything

Its good to be in the Rain

Oct 29, 2007 10:23 AM