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Re: A Friendly Reminder from Jodi’s Husband

Jodi and Julie — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:34:41 -0000

There are for sure lots of ways to do it, and the more the better. I hate losing fonts especially!

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Melissa — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:28:52 -0000

I found your baby steps post through Pinterest and being a computer fan I decided to read this post as well. Btw my hubby and I discuss all of our expense as well!
I have a horror story of my own. When my son was about 14 months old I bought a new digital camera because I wanted the camcorder feature (this was over 4 years ago) my hubby being a gadget lover immediately volunteered to set it up for me. A month later when I went to download all my camera cards onto my pc for backup I realized I was missing the one card from my old digital camera that had everything from my entire pregnancy my older sons first birthday and my younger sons first 13 months of life on it! Now I had backed up my pics on my computer before but we had a mishap where my oldest daughter dumped a glass of soda into my laptop and a box of backup CDs we accidentally left behind in a move and it was too late to get them when we realized it. The card turned out to not be missing at all, gadget savvy hubby is not so computer savvy and did not understand what reformat meant when he put the card into the new camcorder :( I thought he had grabbed a blank one from my stash and I was very wrong. Now the only place I have any of those pics is MySpace and I can't remember my login info. Even though they are all on there. Since I kept my photo settings private I can't view them without being logged in. Moral of the story.... Have backups in quadruple! And don't trust someone else to do things for you when it comes to precious photos... He still has yet to live that down. Now I keep my photos in my email (I and them to myself) I have DVD backups, camera cards, external harddrive and 2 pcs (none of which crash on me btw because I keep them cleaned out and updated) I also back up programs I download, fonts I download, and basically everything I possibly can. My parents have copies of my backup DVDs for our pics and important info as well.

Re: A Friendly Reminder from Jodi’s Husband

Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:50:26 -0000

Not sure what you mean by this ... if you think it's weird that he is "letting" me sign up for something? My husband and I are on a tight budget so we discuss all expenditures big or small. When I told him about Mozy he agreed with me that it was a good idea for me and that I should sign up. I think that's all he was saying here. Hope that makes it clearer!

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Sandi — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:04:43 -0000

"...I happily agreed to let her sign up for Mozy." Really? I hope this was a slip of the fingers.

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Cari — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:55:59 -0000

One more thought... I can't remember if this is in the Emergency Binder or not (my links and downloads of the first several babysteps e-mails were lost too!). You might want to consider keeping serial numbers, a photo, and receipts of your jewelry and high-end electronics/computers/valuables in the event of a home theft or fire/water damage for your insurance. We spent days trying to look up this information so we could file with the insurance company. Since this happened to us, we've heard of so many others who experienced home invasions. It's much more common than you might think, and in nice neighborhoods too.

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Cari — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:50:44 -0000

Here's my own computer emergency horror story.... I too, use a mac and have never had a problem. I keep everything on my computer, and as a graphic designer, even all my client artwork files are there.

Well, when I received my first babysteps checklist and it said "don't skip backing up your computer on Mozy" I thought I was fine, because I have an external drive to back up. In this story, my unbreakable Mac was just fine. It was the double deadbolt on my back door that was broken. We came home from a day trip to find our home had been broken into and they had taken my laptop, my husband's laptop and two work computers, and the backup drive. All of our data was gone forever.

Thankfully, I had recently saved the past 6 years of photos onto CDs, so I only lost this last year of photos (the whole life of my baby, now 10 months old). The computers were not worth that much but we lost hours and hours of work and so many photos that cannot be replaced. I never thought this could happen to me. But I will be backing up my computer from now on! Love this site. Thanks for all the great info.

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Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:33:39 -0000

Michael, we looked into trying to retrieve the data and they said it would be $1400 to try to get anything off of it. The company Mike works for decided the files weren't worth THAT much. I agree with you about having an alternative backup offline as well. Mike actually did have some of his personal files backed up but his disc drive has also recently stopped working. So much for that unbreakable Mac eh? I hate backing up to discs so at least Mozy keeps me somewhat covered if I accidentally wait a few months or years in between my backups!

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Michael — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:35:39 -0000

Thanks for sharing but don't lose hope. There are companies that can easily retrieve your data from a crashed hard drive. It isn't cheap but if the data is important to you it can be recovered.

Also while saving online is a good step, it is only a middle step. The "cloud" can go down as well, so you save online and then you backup offline. That way even if the "cloud" goes down (i.e. your online storage) you still have an accessible backup.

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Jean Colarusso — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:23:49 -0000

You were so right! I love that ... but sad for your husband and his files. Now that your husband has been a guest blogger he is sure to be hooked!

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Joyce — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:55:17 -0000

Thanks for sharing this.:) We have had a couple of crashes in the past too. Not fun.

Nice meeting you, Mike!
Joyce

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Darlene — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:46:04 -0000

I had heard all the horror stories of online scrapbookers, of which I am one, who lost everything when experiencing computer problems. Once I went to digital photos I 'knew' I needed an external hard drive but just kept putting it off. About 8 weeks ago I found one on sale, bought it and backed up my computer. Less than 3 weeks ago I had computer problems that forced me to use my Recovery disc & it wiped my computer clean! I sat in panic thinking of all the things I would have lost! So much preparedness information as well as personal things. I am still finding software that I had downloaded online but never bothered to back up on a CD so I would have a 'hard copy'...trust me.. do it! Anyway...even with my external hard drive I decided to use Mozy; mostly because of Jodi's recommendation here. I signed up and began the backup process. It seemed to be taking a long time, which I had been advised of when registering. But to aleave my fears I emailed Mozy support. I had a prompt reply to my question plus I asked a second question...Mozy could not have given better customer service! I had several follow up emails..."Were all my concerns addressed, did I have any further issues that they could help with and to never hesitate to contact them with any problems or questions". This excellent experience with Mozy makes me feel confident that my files are doubly protected. Thanks Jodi!!
And PLEASE if you are not backed up and protected do it immediately; nothing will make you cry like losing precious information/photos/records would do.
Best to All,
Darlene

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Emily — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:49:22 -0000

That is so sad : ( But sometimes it takes "natural dissasters" to teach us the fun lessons in life. I have an external hard drive, and I love it. I just keep it with my dissaster kit in my closet and whenever I need to back something up I grab it and then put it right back where it was.