Saving your data

Posted on: 17 November 2004

Let’s face it, no one likes to lose their data and we all should make regular back ups of everything we do.

But hand on heart, do you back up as often as you should?

What would happen if your laptop got stolen with your writing on it or your PC crashed at home and you couldn’t retrieve the data on it?

You would be in real trouble and that’s why its important to consider various solutions around for saving your data.

Off-site back up is a solution worth looking at. You connect your computer to the internet and transfer all your data to another system so that if the worst should happen, there’s always a copy of your work available.

One company offering home users off site back up at reasonable cost is DataFort which offers PCFort.
For £28.06 (inc VAT) a year you can store up to 1 gigbyte of data on their servers. If you need more space you can upgrade. Only downside is that you pay for accounts yearly in advance, but there is a month free trial of the service.

Overall it looks a pretty good service and one that is worth investigating for anyone who values their data.