letabug Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I have quite a few things for scrapbooking now and would hate it if I lost them for some reason what is the best way to store & back up. Right now they are just in a folder on my computer but I am thinking something else would be better. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April Showers Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Mozy is an online back-up service that is Mac compatible. I've seen quite a few posts from Mac users that really like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurel Lakey Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I use an external hard drive that I keep my files on, and I also use Mozy to back everything up. It's a great program, only $5 a month and it will back up EHD's plus your C drive and everything. SO worth it, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Arell Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I just bought an external hard drive for my scrapbooking stuff - it's called a "My Book" and the one I bought holds terabytes so I think I will have plenty of space to store everything. I'm going to take a day and organize and move all of my files onto the EHD because I have so many that they are beginning to slow down my Mac and it's a new one with huge amounts of memory. The files from ScrapGirls plus all the photographs and the finished pages take up an enormous amount of space on the computer. Hope this helps! Sara Arell ncsea10@mchsi.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekscrapper Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I *highly* recommend something like Mozy as well as an EHD. If something happens to my home, I still have copies of nearly all my most precious memories... everything except my professionally-made wedding album, and hopefully I can grab that on the way out of the house! My next step is to scan all of my older photographs - thankfully I don't have too many of those! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letabug Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 I just signed up with MOZY, but I think I will get an EHD too so I can free up space on my computer. I have a new MAC as well and it is slowing down alot b/c of all the stuff. Thanks for all the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Arell Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Good Luck! I hope you don't have to spend as much time as I have been spending re-organizing and backing up! I am still working on my organization project which I wish I had started from the very beginning! I had no idea I ever have so much scrapbooking stuff on my computer but I love it! I never get enough. Let me know how it works out for you. Sara Arell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letabug Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 I've been backing up for days. Now I don't know if I should buy an external hard drive so I can clean up my computer or what. Since I"m not done backing up I will have to wait to see how it goes. Does anybody know if I can still drag things to where I want it from MOZY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luthien Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 One piece of advice, ladies. NEVER depend on only ONE type of file storage. One of my biggest EHD's failed this week. It got fried, even though it was plugged into one of the $300 power surge protector/line conditioner boxes. I lost everything on it. It was my main graphics EHD, where I stored it ALL. It will cost me $500 or more to send to a shop to try to pull off the data. Now, this is the first HD failure I have ever had, and it was an external. However... things could be much worse! Almost everything on that EHD is on a second EHD that is a portable that I take with me when I use my laptop. What is NOT on the second portable EHD is burned onto CD's or DVD's... some files more than once. I try very hard to make MULTIPLE copies of everything, in different media. I did it early on, because I had both a Mac and a Windoze computer, so what could be shared, is. The EHD that failed is on my Windoze computer that I rarely use. I have yet another EHD on my new Mac, but it doesn't have a lot of graphics on it. YET. I am going to have to make DVD copies of the files on the little portable EHD that I use with my main laptop, which is now a Toshiba, because I gave the Powerbook to my hubby. The new Mac won't read the portable EHD, so the files aren't accessible to me. I also have a .Mac account, and use that for backing up the most important stuff on my Mac, because I don't have to think about it, and it's a part of the whole deal with .Mac, when you get an account, that they provide automatic backup for you. You can also buy extra storage on Apple's servers. I personally haven't bought more storage YET, but I plan to, because frankly, I trust Apple to be there. I am not sure about a third party. In the meantime, yes, use those EHDs, but also buy the BEST DVD media you can, not the cheapest, and burn them. I need to burn more copies of all my Scrap Girls files. I like to keep my purchases in at least 2 places! Yes, storage of DVD's can be a pain, but if it weren't for that, I'd have lost more than I did. I DID lose some graphics files, things that I'd planned on working on, which are gone. Oh well. They aren't worth paying the money to retrieve. Sorry for the long rant. I don't know about Mozy, so I can't speak to that. But I'll check it out. How long have they been in business, and do they tell you what equipment they have? Where they are located, and is it in an area prone to tornado, flooding, lightning, etc? What backups do they provide for their own equipment? Those are the types of things I will look for/ask about... I guess I've been in the IS business too long... or was. I did it for years. I am out of that now, but I still think that way. Hope this helps someone, and doesn't bug you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I have used Mozy for almost a year now and I am quite happy with it. The Mac version is a Beta version so it is not absolutely perfect, but it works. Mozy is a back-up solution, and does not work as an external hard drive, which means that you can not drag and drop your files as you want to. Mozy takes back-up of your files where they are and if something should happen to your hard drive(or EHD) you can log on to your account and order a backup of the files you have lost. Mozy keeps a copy of your folders/subfolders/files and you can choose to have a web-restore, which means that mozy creates a zip file of your files and send you and e-mail when its ready for download(works fine for a small amount of files). Or you can order restore on DVD's for a large amount of files. I managed to spill a glass of coke(...don't ask me how...)over my laptop a few months ago, and I lost 40G of digiscrap supplies. It took over a week to download the files back from Mozy, but I was really glad I had the backup at Mozy's..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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