I’ve long advocated the use of online backup systems for personal and business purposes. Your location may burn to the ground or be rendered inaccessible by disaster, but you’ll still be able to retrieve your files. Such systems have become increasingly low-cost and user-friendly, and the best one we’ve found so far — one we’re using myself ourselves — is KeepVault. You no longer need to be a big organization to afford this one, and it seamlessly backs up in real time, not just at set intervals.
Whether you use its personal backup solution or its business backup solution, this is a no-brainer way to assure business continuity and preservation of critical data. At $48 a year for 40GB in a personal account (only $99 for 100GB!), you can’t use cost as an excuse anymore. Even the business solution, with some impressive additional perks (see comparison chart), only ranges from $193-364 for the same amounts of storage, with much larger storage options available.
KeepVault does offer a 30-day trial, so give ’em a shot. We think you’ll be pleasantly surprised how easy it is.
BCM Blogging Team
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