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Reader Stories: The Time(s) I Forgot to Back Up

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It’s happened to many of us -- you upload a pile of a digital photographs of your trip to Fiji to your hard drive, promising yourself that you’ll back them up … soon. Except “soon” is preceded by some kind of computer disaster and you never see those photos again. We feel your pain. Share with us your tale of shame and let your woe become a warning.

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3-2-1 Backup

As before all ok, backed up 3-2-1. Put away in appropriate places and am happy camper. Any successful endeavor is hard work of some kind depending on your perception of hard work. Also back up to 4 G…More

Beware of Online Services

This was a long time ago when people still had 35mm film cameras. I sent some film cartridges to Snapfish, which converted the photos to digital for us for free. But after years of very light usage o…More

Virus Wreaks Havoc

About 10 years ago, I got infected with a virus that corrupted or destroyed most files on my PC. Pictures were not a big issue back then, but I did lose all our financial/checking account information…More

Had to Rewrite from Scratch

We did incremental backups on the site every 2 hours and a full site backup everyday. But when we tried to get the site restored, we were told it would take two days to get the data. We ended up rewr…More

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