I still remember last year around this time where I lost 6 months of my work, data and emails due to a hard disk crash. 6 months is a lot of data lost even for a small company like ours! No fun. No fun at all. If we’ve got something like IDrive-E at that time, I would have been able to recover my stuff.
They are basically an online backup service that provides up to 2GB of space for your backups. They have a client that you can use to setup automatic backups so that it’s a total hands off system. In an event where you need to recover your data, you can even choose which generation you would like to restore the backup from. And the best part is, the basic setup is FREE!
There are many alternatives out there and some even offer around the same thing with their software, but nothing beats having it FREE. Even for the paid service, the price seems pretty reasonable given that it’s for a yearly pricing. There was a similar service offered in Singapore by a local company many years back but the price you pay is on a monthly basis and you don’t get this amount of space.
I’m definitely going to try them out. At least when something crashes next time, I won’t have to worry about loosing too much data.
