Right now, November 2015 Genie via their Zoolz product are offering a 96% discount.
for a ONE TIME PRICE of $64.99 you get A LIFETIME of 1 TB of storage with 2 user access.
You can reads my reviews on Zoolz and other backups by typing “Zoolz” in the search box on this site, visiting the “Backing up” categories on the right hand side of the page or clicking here.
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Do you have a Technology Question and don’t know who to ask?
Jump on over to Ward Computers LinkedIn account, follow us and ask away!
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ward-computers?trk=nmp_rec_act_company_name
People who have been using Windows for years, likely know about the administrator share (C$) built into Windows file sharing. You open Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer),type in the computer name followed by the “/” and then “C$” (//MyOldPC/C$) and you could access almost if not everything on the computer. No, you could not ‘run’ programs this way, just access the files and folders.
When you need to move data from one home computer to another such as during a computer replacement or upgrade you want to make it as easy and quick as possible. Continue reading
As a quick reminder, Web 2.0, Cloud, off-site, remote and quite often “managed” backups are stored out of your building, on someone else’s servers / storage systems. With that comes some relief and new stress. The relief is that if the backups are outside your building. If you lose your building due to fire, Tornado, Flood, Hurricane et al you can still, in theory access your backups. You just need a computer with the internet and your backup account logon information.
If you don’t have the software to run the backed up data then you are in trouble. For example, if you are backing up your point-of-sale database (QuickBooks, Dinerware, Microsoft’s RMS…) you will need those programs installed before you can use you recovered data. Just a reminder, if you backed up data is from a server with special setup such as Microsoft’s Business Contact Manager or Oracle, your new system must have that program and the database must still be recovered, it is not a “just drop the data in and go” setup, but then again, almost no backup is that way (I will deal with entire system recovery programs later, however as a heads up, I have had no issues or complaints with Acronis hint-hint wink-wink). Continue reading