Since then I have been working with an iMac (second hand, but no problems to date, touch wood!) and an external HDD. I did start out religiously backing up, but then laxed. Now, I have been reminded of the importance of backing up, and have just backed up about 10% of my files (the most important stuff).

So thank you!

And I hope you never have the curse of the failing HDD ever again. (BTW, I’ve heard that USB flash memories are a better alternative. Haven’t looked into this myself, but hope to one day soon.)

BTW, Danny Sheehan says:

“I just purchased myself a copy of Acronis True Image 10 Home, it is a lot like Norton Ghost only a lot cheaper. I am amazed that people think that backing up is just a matter of copying email files and documents to another drive. You need to backup your entire drive and be able to restore your entire drive quickly. In internet marketing time is money.”

Is this a program that copies the entire HDD infrastructure onto an external HDD at the click of a mouse? Is it ‘dummies’ easy?

Cheers!

Tracey

I pay $5 a month and my hard drive is automatically backed up – check it out http://www.carbonite.com/.

Carbonite is NOT a resource hog – As you make any changes to your hard drive carbonite will update the change automatically.

Craig

I actually like them enough that I may keep on using them. It would make it so easy to answer email from different computers. “…

Also, thanks for reminder to back up blog, Terry…

“Remember one of your basic teachings… You aren’t paid by the hour you work… you are paid by the value you produce. That value can’t be realized as long as it is on your hard drive.

Another teaching we both emphasize is focus. Do one project at a time and get it out there… then move on to the next. That stuff on your hard drive can be viewed as unfinished projects.”

James, that felt like you were speaking directly to me… Thanks.

I will definitely checkout Deepfreeze as a possibility.

As mentioned, the majority of my stuff is either “out there” so it is saved somewhere or almost all sales copy is on a site (even if I don’t show it yet). It’s just been a pain all the way around…

As an update, after having it worked on, it’s been determined it is a hardware malfunction and the hard drive is being replaced under warranty (the computer is only 3 months old).

Hang in there.

You might want to look up Deepfreeze on my blog. It is my solution to viruses, spyware, backups, defrags, malware, hackers and everything else. I have no affiliation with them. I just love them because they’ve changed the way I use my computers.

My Windows-based systems stay minty fresh for the entire couple of years that I own them. A hard drive crash means nothing to my data. It’s not on my hard drive to begin with.

Remember one of your basic teachings… You aren’t paid by the hour you work… you are paid by the value you produce. That value can’t be realized as long as it is on your hard drive.

Another teaching we both emphasize is focus. Do one project at a time and get it out there… then move on to the next. That stuff on your hard drive can be viewed as unfinished projects.

Even family pictures can be put on a DVD, uploaded to Kunaki and then you can purchase your own DVD and send it to close family members. Now they have received a priceless gift… AND you have a backup of your pictures.

The same is true of EVERYTHING we keep as clutter in our lifes. Give it away to keep it.

-James D. Brausch

Still waiting on the computer guy to let me know what all is being salvaged. Not having access to my email folders, I went over to Gmail.com and set up all my pop addresses to pull up through them.

I actually like them enough that I may keep on using them. It would make it so easy to answer email from different computers.

Happy to see that you didn’t lose you important data.