Free Biz Ware » google docs http://freebizware.com Free and Open Source Business Softwares Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:46:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Revisiting the Search for a Backup Solution http://freebizware.com/147/revisiting-the-search-for-a-backup-solution/ http://freebizware.com/147/revisiting-the-search-for-a-backup-solution/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:55:45 +0000 Ken http://freebizware.com/?p=147 Backup had a been one of those concern that is well known but yet not well addressed. Since musing about the process of brainstorming for a backup strategy, I have yet to find a solution that I felt was easy and simple for a non-technical small business owner to setup and use.

As mentioned before, since I’m now using Ubuntu, my focus would be tools that should runs on Linux. But keeping in mind that many non-technical users are on Windows and I also uses MacOSX, the perfect backup solution is indeed one that runs on the 3 major platforms – Linux, Mac and Windows.

As with most solution search these day, the first stop is to visit the seach engine and generate a few alternatives as the starting point.

With the increasing popularity of using the “cloud”, the other alternative is to backup to one of those online backup services. A few that I had tried come to mind – Mozy, Carbonite, Wuala and here is a list with comparison.

So far none had led me to sustained use.

Now that Google is providing space to upload any file, perhaps someone will soon come up with a way backup files to Google. The price for additional space is pretty attractive too.

Do you have any other recommendation?

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