January 7, 2011

CrashPlan and Why The Cloud Makes Sense

Are you doing enough to protect your data? That you stumbled onto this article may indicate a concern you aren’t doing enough to ensure its security. If you are at least backing up your data to another hard drive, ideally an external drive like a Western Digital Passport, you are doing a better job than most. If you are backing up to an external drive and also taking that drive offsite then you are WAY ahead of most people. But you might be wondering if there is a way you could automate this entire process – a way to backup on a regular basis, in the background, without having to initiate anything and also have the backup location exist offsite. What is the answer?…

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October 5, 2010

Quicknote: Dropbox as your web development drive?

I’ve recently discovered a really great use for Dropbox.  I started keeping all my website files in my Dropbox folder and I actively edit (notepad, FileZilla, etc.) these files in that location.  As I’m editing and saving files, Dropbox does it’s magic and syncs to the Dropbox service as well as all other computers I have Dropbox running on.  The beauty of this is that not only do you have realtime backup, you also have multiple recovery points if you decide you don’t like the recent change you made.  It really streamlines the file editing process because you no longer have to perform manual backups before you start making changes (although doing this from time to time is still advisable).

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