Please back up your computer

Please back up your computer

by | May 13, 2020 | Instructor Resources

I just got an email from an ICI/PRO member who was scheduled to take part in the beta test of a new LIVE online training program that I will be offering in December. It was a very short message, sent from her phone; My computer crashed, the whole thing now has nothing on it!  No files, no nothing…. so I won't be joining you tonight.

I feel very bad for her and I really hope she has everything backed up. I too have also suffered from hard drive failures that lead to the lost of hundreds of files, pictures and songs. After the first time I vowed never to be unprotected ever again so, at the recomendation of my little brother the computer guy in our family, I subscribed to Carbonite. Now every night Carbonite does it's thing and in the morning every single is backed up. I didn't have to remember to do anything.

Carbonite has a Free trial to get you started- and they don't require a credit card.

Originally posted 2011-11-13 14:36:01.

Please back up your computer

This was a preventable – near disaster at the conference

by | Oct 16, 2010 | Instructor Tips and Tricks, Product Reviews

Back up your Music and filesWe had a near disaster at this years conference that could have been easily prevented. Without using any names, one of our scheduled presenters contacted us three days before the conference to tell us her computer's hard-drive failed and she lost her presentation power-point + everything everything else on her computer. The last time she had backed up her computer was many weeks before the failure and now she was looking at $500.00 or more to have a service “recover” as much data as possible. She had to literally reconstruct her entire presentation using her handout.

Had she subscribed to an automatic backup service like Carbonite this would have been a minor inconvenience, instead of a major panic.

I talked about this during my presentation on using iTunes and explained how I had a similar hard-drive failure last year. Because I use Carbonite, I was able to purchase a new hard-drive locally (about $70.00) and with a few clicks restored everything in just a few hours. I lost nothing.

Did I mention she uses a Mac? She could have easily borrowed someones computer, downloaded the files she needed and be ready to present in about 5 minutes.

Don't be foolish. It's less than $5.00 a month.  Sign-up now.