How To Keep Your Data Safe: Safe Data Backup & Recovery
From keeping your phone contacts safe to keeping your PC backed up & synced,Here are some easy and quick options available
IF IT HAPPENS TO YOU,LOSS OF DATA can be crushing.Imagine,if years of your hard work,thousands of documents,digital photographs,videos and songs vanished without a trace.To prevent this from happening,you should always keep multiple and recent backups of your data.These days,with more powerful devices and increased storage,even a smartphone serves as the primary repository for hundreds of contacts,email addresses,songs,photographs and video.Phones can get lost or stolen,and thanks to the increased complexity,can also crash - leading to loss of data.Here are some of the various ways you can back up all your precious data,whether on physical devices,or online,on the 'cloud'.
For your phone
Google Sync-
www.google.com/mobile/sync Heavy users of Gmail should look no further than Google Mobile Sync.It's completely free,supports BlackBerry devices,iPhone,Nokia,Windows Mobile and various other phones that use the Sync-ML standard for data synchronisation.You can store all your phone contacts within Gmail and access them anytime.And,if you get an Android device,all you have to do is enter your Gmail ID & password into the device and all your contacts will be on it instantly.
Bloove -
www.bloove.com Bloove is a Web-based management system for phone contacts.It works on Android,Symbian,Windows Mobile and others using J2ME.You only have to sign up for an account and download the Bloove app on to your phone.Then,using GPRS,you can save the contacts securely on Bloove's servers.The paid plans offer extra features like archival of SMSes,scheduled SMS sending and restoring of contacts to multiple phones.
Mobical -
www.mobical.net Mobical supports hundreds of different phones,ranging from Nokia,Motorola,HTC,Samsung and Sony Ericsson.The service is completely free,and like Bloove,it uses GPRS to sync data from your phone onto their servers.Data usage is high,because when you add a new contact to your phone,it is automatically added to your online backup.
Anywr Beta -
www.anywr.com Anywr is more than just a backup service.It allows you to import and combine various address books you may have (such as from multiple webmail providers),have a social calendar which your friends can see,see what your friends are doing,and restore your contacts easily in case your phone gets reset,lost or stolen.
Syncfriend -
www.syncfriend.com Syncfriend offers contacts storage,but with a few hidden gems.Like the others,it can automatically sync and backup data,but it also includes a 'de-duper';it can automatically search for and remove duplicate entries in your phone contacts.Syncfriend also provides a free Outlook client to sync addresses.It integrates with Outlook and adds a menu to the toolbar for phone data sync.
TIP:
Online backup is great,but don't undermine the importance of keeping your phone data backed up locally as well.Sync the phone using the supplied PC software and save date-wise backups.If you don't have the CD that came with the phone,you can always download the latest version from the manufacturers website (look in the support/download section).If all important contacts are backed up to an application like Windows Address Book or Microsoft Outlook,they can also be exported to Excel files or transferred to a new device easily.
For your PC
Dropbox -
www.dropbox.com Dropbox offers 2GB of free online space for backups and syncs across multiple devices (smartphones,Windows,MACs & Linux).First,you sign up for a free account and download the software to your PC.Then you designate one folder as a Dropbox folder,store anything in it and sync it with an unlimited number of computers.Paid plans are available for $9.99 a month or $ 19.99 a month (50/100GB).
Mozy -
www.mozy.com Mozy also offers 2GB of free online space for backing up all your data,but the paid service costs much less than Dropbox at $4.95 a month or $54.45 a year for unlimited storage.That's right;all the data on your PC,whatever it is,whatever format,can be backed up online.So,in case the hard drives crash,your PC gets stolen or washed away in a flood,you still have all your data.Initial backup takes the longest,and depends on the amount of data and your internet connection speed.But thereafter,only the files you change get backed up.
Free online storage
http :// skydrive.live.com If you prefer to keep things simple,you can go with regular online storage.Windows Live Skydrive offers 25GB of free space to store any data you want.If you have a Windows Live Hotmail,Messenger or Xbox Live ID,you're already signed in to use SkyDrive.You don't need any additional software,since you can upload files using any web browser.www.adrive.com is another option,they offer 50GB free.There is an advantage to these services as compared to Dropbox and Mozy;you don't need to keep a client application running on your PC all the time.You can take control of your backups,and do them when you need to.
More options
Other services that you can explore for online backup of data are Syncplicity (www.syncplicity.com),Sugar Sync (www.sugarsync.com),Carbonite (www.carbonite.com) and Box.net (www.box.net).
TIP:
On a Windows machine,utilise the built-in Windows Restore feature.This tracks changes to the computer and can revert to a safe state in case there is a problem.This is done with the help of restore points,which can be manually or automatically set.Storage of multiple restore points on a machine can also clog up hard drive space,so you can choose to keep only the most recent restore point and delete the rest.For more information : http:// goo.gl/mmMgm
www.bloove.com Bloove is a Web-based management system for phone contacts.It works on Android,Symbian,Windows Mobile and others using J2ME.You only have to sign up for an account and download the Bloove app on to your phone.Then,using GPRS,you can save the contacts securely on Bloove's servers.The paid plans offer extra features like archival of SMSes,scheduled SMS sending and restoring of contacts to multiple phones.
Mobical -
www.mobical.net Mobical supports hundreds of different phones,ranging from Nokia,Motorola,HTC,Samsung and Sony Ericsson.The service is completely free,and like Bloove,it uses GPRS to sync data from your phone onto their servers.Data usage is high,because when you add a new contact to your phone,it is automatically added to your online backup.
Anywr Beta -
www.anywr.com Anywr is more than just a backup service.It allows you to import and combine various address books you may have (such as from multiple webmail providers),have a social calendar which your friends can see,see what your friends are doing,and restore your contacts easily in case your phone gets reset,lost or stolen.
Syncfriend -
www.syncfriend.com Syncfriend offers contacts storage,but with a few hidden gems.Like the others,it can automatically sync and backup data,but it also includes a 'de-duper';it can automatically search for and remove duplicate entries in your phone contacts.Syncfriend also provides a free Outlook client to sync addresses.It integrates with Outlook and adds a menu to the toolbar for phone data sync.
TIP:
Online backup is great,but don't undermine the importance of keeping your phone data backed up locally as well.Sync the phone using the supplied PC software and save date-wise backups.If you don't have the CD that came with the phone,you can always download the latest version from the manufacturers website (look in the support/download section).If all important contacts are backed up to an application like Windows Address Book or Microsoft Outlook,they can also be exported to Excel files or transferred to a new device easily.
For your PC
Dropbox -
www.dropbox.com Dropbox offers 2GB of free online space for backups and syncs across multiple devices (smartphones,Windows,MACs & Linux).First,you sign up for a free account and download the software to your PC.Then you designate one folder as a Dropbox folder,store anything in it and sync it with an unlimited number of computers.Paid plans are available for $9.99 a month or $ 19.99 a month (50/100GB).
Mozy -
www.mozy.com Mozy also offers 2GB of free online space for backing up all your data,but the paid service costs much less than Dropbox at $4.95 a month or $54.45 a year for unlimited storage.That's right;all the data on your PC,whatever it is,whatever format,can be backed up online.So,in case the hard drives crash,your PC gets stolen or washed away in a flood,you still have all your data.Initial backup takes the longest,and depends on the amount of data and your internet connection speed.But thereafter,only the files you change get backed up.
Free online storage
http :// skydrive.live.com If you prefer to keep things simple,you can go with regular online storage.Windows Live Skydrive offers 25GB of free space to store any data you want.If you have a Windows Live Hotmail,Messenger or Xbox Live ID,you're already signed in to use SkyDrive.You don't need any additional software,since you can upload files using any web browser.www.adrive.com is another option,they offer 50GB free.There is an advantage to these services as compared to Dropbox and Mozy;you don't need to keep a client application running on your PC all the time.You can take control of your backups,and do them when you need to.
More options
Other services that you can explore for online backup of data are Syncplicity (www.syncplicity.com),Sugar Sync (www.sugarsync.com),Carbonite (www.carbonite.com) and Box.net (www.box.net).
TIP:
On a Windows machine,utilise the built-in Windows Restore feature.This tracks changes to the computer and can revert to a safe state in case there is a problem.This is done with the help of restore points,which can be manually or automatically set.Storage of multiple restore points on a machine can also clog up hard drive space,so you can choose to keep only the most recent restore point and delete the rest.For more information : http:// goo.gl/mmMgm
SOURCE: Times of India
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