Backup to Avoid Disaster

2. Hard Drive Backup

1. On-Line Backup!

What Rich has his Parents do...

3-2-1 Backup:

3 Copies in

2 Different Formats

1 Off-Site

and/or

Free to $5 / month

?? / unlimited

Free to $4 / month

15gb / 100gb

$80 to $140

On-Line Backup

External Hard Drive

• Store between 1tb & 3tb of data

• Cost: $80 to $140

• Have at least 2 for "Off Site Backup!!!"

• Auto Backup!

• Store between 17GB, 100GB, & unlimited data

• Cost: Free to $5 per month

• Inherently "Off Site"

• Auto Backup!

• Google Drive, Dropbox, CrashPlan

Backing up Our Computers

to Avoid Disaster

How can we protect our documents, photographs & data?

USB Flash Drive

Types of Backups

• Store between 32gb & 256gb of data

• Cost: $9 to $72

• Have at least 2 for "Off Site Backup"

• No auto backup

DVD Burner

• DVD's = 4.7gb or 2,100 photos

• Store Backup DVD's "Off Site!!!"

• No Auto Backup

This could never happen to me!?

By Accident - Oops!

• Accidental Deletion of a file

• Misplacement of a CD

• User Error

Disasters

Francis Ford Coppola's

laptop stolen

Rich McCue

How does someone lose 10 years of photos?

• Fire

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

• Flood

"Film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for the return of his COMPUTER BACKUP DEVICE following a robbery at his house in Argentina on Wednesday."

Hardware Failure

Crime

• Hard Drive Failure

• Data Corruption

• Theft

• Hacking

• Viruses / Worms