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Friday, December 23, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Suggestion # 2 for backing up your data on a remote server
Okay, so assuming your first small step in backing up all of your system's data worked, what's next? BTW, if it did not, or if you have questions, here is a good place to test the support organization of your backup firm. Mine is SOS Online Backup, and IMHO support is their strong suit. They were all over, in a hurry, any issues I experienced, and came up with the workable solution in all cases.
I would suggest that you split up your MY DOCUMENTS folder into separate backups by backing up a folder at a time and then thoroughly checking out the results. After my initial test backup's success, I then started, one at a time, to go after the biggies, namely MY PICTURES, MY MOVIES, MY MUSIC, and MY OUTLOOK MAIL FOLDERS. I started with the smallest of these 4 folders and ran each one separately. Backing up takes time, and I typically allowed these biggies to run overnight and even multiple days if necessary. Remember, upload speed from your Internet Service Provider is typically a lot slower than download speed. In the case of Comcast, their advertised download speed is 15 MB and upload speed is only 5 MB per second. Speed tests of your connection can be done here: http://speedtest.comcast.net/ With Comcast your download speed can be far greater than the 15 MB advertised because of their burst mode for downloads, but their upload speed will always come in around 5 MB.
After successfully backing up each folder, be sure to check its contents completely.
This is what mine looks like now.
I would suggest that you split up your MY DOCUMENTS folder into separate backups by backing up a folder at a time and then thoroughly checking out the results. After my initial test backup's success, I then started, one at a time, to go after the biggies, namely MY PICTURES, MY MOVIES, MY MUSIC, and MY OUTLOOK MAIL FOLDERS. I started with the smallest of these 4 folders and ran each one separately. Backing up takes time, and I typically allowed these biggies to run overnight and even multiple days if necessary. Remember, upload speed from your Internet Service Provider is typically a lot slower than download speed. In the case of Comcast, their advertised download speed is 15 MB and upload speed is only 5 MB per second. Speed tests of your connection can be done here: http://speedtest.comcast.net/ With Comcast your download speed can be far greater than the 15 MB advertised because of their burst mode for downloads, but their upload speed will always come in around 5 MB.
After successfully backing up each folder, be sure to check its contents completely.
This is what mine looks like now.
Note that I have backed up about 77GB of my data. I have a total of about 95GB in MY Documents. I will do further downloads a folder at a time until I have everything backed up completely. If you have any questions, please write me.
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