Comments on: A Clean Slate

By: Arika

Arika — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:15:47 +0000

Ah yes, Mozy has saved my butt a few times!

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:44:43 +0000

Sorry for your computer crash. Even if you have all backed up it takes time to go back to work.

It happened to me two times when I was writting my thesis, but fortunately I had backups of the important things.

Thanks for your recommendation. It looks interesting.

By: Keisha Foster

Keisha Foster — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:23:34 +0000

Carrie,

You’re the answer to my prayers or at least this post directed me to the answer! For the past few days, the thought kept coming up that I need to backup my computer. In addition to having a number of training programs/resources and research saved to my computer, I’m in the process of creating my first info product. I surely don’t want to lose all that info and have to start all over again. Thanks for the recommendation!

By: Melissa Ingold

Melissa Ingold — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:24:21 +0000

Yes Backup is super important. And we all learn this the hard way at least once.

Thanks for the tip on the great backup service.

By: Annette Kerr

Annette Kerr — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:32:02 +0000

Hi Carrie!

That happened to me during the summer. It was quite stressful. Luckily, I have a good ‘techie’ friend who was able to spend the afternoon trying to fix my laptop. He ended up having to re-set it to the factory settings, but not before saving all my files on an external drive. It was easy to put the files back on after the laptop was up and running again.

I had to reinstall all my drivers (modem, printer, etc..) I did lose a few programs from the C drive, but nothing I’ve really missed!

It was a valuable lesson in the importance of back-up and using external & virtual drives for storage.

Annette