Students who have completed the Information Storage and Management curriculum during the 2009/2010 school year with the highest GPA at one of more than 300 colleges and universities within the EMC Academic Alliance will be rewarded for their efforts. EMC, which owns Decho, of which Mozy is a product, will give away an Iomega StorCenter ix2 and a 2-year Mozy online backup subscription.
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Archive for August, 2009
EMC Information Honors Program
Friday, August 28th, 2009Hurricane Bill Reminds Us To Backup
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
The Royal Gazette recently posted a piece entitled, “Protect your technology from Hurricane Bill, says CSB“. Interesting advice, from the Computer Society of Bermuda.
Not only were islanders reminded to unplug electronics (to save them from electrical surges), but they were also told to backup their data.
One tip is to get a flash drive and copy Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to it for portability.
Any media you can’t bear to lose should be burned to DVDs including films, music and digital photos.
Important work files can be transferred to an external hard drive – but do it before your power goes out. Either use a back-up program found on your computer or manually copy files over.
So you can backup to a USB flash drive, or burn to DVD, or copy to an external hard drive… oh, and you have to do all of this as you board up your house and prepare for the storm to move in.
If they were using an online backup service, all of this data would be securely and regularly backed up, far away from the storm’s path.
While we may not all have the threat of hurricane’s hanging over us, there’s always something that can destroy our beloved data.
SpiderOak Back to School Special
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
SpiderOak (a 4-star rated backup service) is having a back-to-school special: get 50% off your SpiderOak subscription with a .edu email address.
The discount will remain open to all students, faculty and school employees with a valid .edu email address. Just go to https://spideroak.com/download to sign up.
What’s great about SpiderOak is you can work on your school projects at home, and when you open your netbook, they’ll be there. Or if you forget to turn in an assignment, just
SugarSync for IT Consultants
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Wayne Schulz is a self-proclaimed ERP Lifestyle Consultant, who wrote about a unique use for SugarSync: storing master program CDs.
Has this ever happened to you?
After arriving at a client site you find that you’re missing that one CD required to complete a software installation?
SafeCopy Folder Sharing
Monday, August 24th, 2009Apple Time Machine & Mozy
Monday, August 24th, 2009Earlier this month, users of Apple’s Time Machine who were doing online backups with Mozy were reporting multiple problems. Mozy’s backup process was causing the Time Machine to freeze, stopping local backups until Mozy finished.
Decho spokesman Devin Knighton said,
The good news is that no one is losing information. Mozy and Time Capsule still work. They just are not working together at the same time.
The issue was raised on August 11 / 12, and by the 13th version 1.4.3 Mac release for Mozy, which fixes the Time Machine/Time Capsule issue, became available for download.
MacLife’s Online Storage Battle
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Not really new, but SafeCopy Backup Review Posted
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Our review of SafeCopy Backup has finally been posted! We really dug into this one, and found some key features that make it a strong buy: such as multiple computers on a single account, instead of buying a license for each computer.
However, restoring files takes a little time getting used to, and the iPhone app is lacking features and core functionality.
Take a look at our SafeCopy review & let us know what you think!
Another IDrive Contest: #ILoveIDrive
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
IDrive is at is again with a new Twitter contest! The rules are quite simple: follow @IDrive_Online on Twitter, then tweet (up to 10 times per day) something with the #ILoveIDrive hash-tag.
IDrive will choose 1 tweet each day, who will win an IDrive Portable drive. Then at the end of the contest, all of the eligible tweets will be entered to win a MacBook Pro 13″.
While you’re at it, follow us at @BackupsReview!
Win a MacBook Pro From #IDrive
Friday, August 7th, 2009Today’s the last day to enter to win a 13-inch MacBook Pro from IDrive!
All this week, IDrive has been giving away 320GB IDrive Portable USB hard drives. These tiny (and I mean tiny!) drives will handle local backups of your data. Of course, we advocate for online backups, but local backups are important, too.
In addition, IDrive is giving away a brand new MacBook Pro 13″. So go tweet about this contest!
Entry is simple. Just include the #IDrive tag in any tweet on Twitter. Be as creative as you want with your tweet…. Oh and don’t forget to follow @IDrive_Online to see if you’ve won!
More details at the IDrive blog…
