Comments on: It’s April Fool’s Day. Have You Backed Up Your Ebooks?

By: Marta

Marta — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:34:49 +0000

I was looking for a free and unlimited on line back up softwere and at the beginning i tried Mozy (www.mozy.com) but it stores files for a limited period of time. Recently i tried Memopal (www.memopal.com) that store files without any limitation of time. Furthermore is also a full system recovery data, automatic back up, and ftp as well. Not bad at all.

By: Teddy Pig

Teddy Pig — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:45:07 +0000

Oh and unlike Microsoft… Google docs is free!

By: Teddy Pig

Teddy Pig — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:43:05 +0000

From the makers of gmail check out Google docs and spreadsheets.

You can actually write your book online and it is safely stored there in a Word-like format, you can share it with others and allow revisions and editing but always with the ability to revert backwards.

Step into the future.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:06:08 +0000

P.S. I just reread your post about Mozy. Mozy actually has unlimited restores, too. No limits.

By: Keishon

Keishon — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:53:47 +0000

WeLL- my computer has a back-up so I think I should be OK. Great idea for those who need extra protection.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:38:19 +0000

I’ve been backing up to both Mozy and Carbonite for over a year now, and while Carbonite is cheaper if you pay a year in advance, it lacks very important features that we as writers should consider. Imagine your manuscript has become corrupted on your hard drive, and that corrupted manuscript has been backed up to Carbonite. When you go to restore your backup, it too will be corrupt. Make sure your backup method includes the ability to restore to previous backed up versions. Common backup software such as Norton Ghost (and even Mozy) include these “restore points”.

By: Shayla Kersten

Shayla Kersten — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:04:42 +0000

I back up daily to an external hard drive but the drive stays at home. So a fire or other disaster would take both the computer and the hard drive. Each time I finish working on a manuscript for the day, I also email it to a Yahoo account set up just for my manuscripts. I’ve had a few hard drive failures and so far, knock on wood, I haven’t lost any data.

By: Alison Kent

Alison Kent — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:30:39 +0000

In August 2005, I lost every manuscript I’d ever written - including the WIP (Deep Breath) which I had just that morning uploaded to my server space. It was due in less than a week, and knowing it was safe was the only thing that kept me sane. (Also lost tons of emails, original photoshop website design files. Yeah. Not happy.)

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:03:05 +0000

Just to be on the safe side, I brought a flash drive and that’s where I’m storing all my ebooks.

I do have an account with eBookwise.com and the books that I purchased with them on are on my bookshelf with them.

By: Sarah McCarty

Sarah McCarty — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:56:29 +0000

I’m so paranoid about backing up (though my issues were WORD related) everytime I leave my computer I email a file to an account. The one thing I was told by techies was to back up to a non rewritable source as that would prevent glitches from wiping out what’s on the disk.

Sarah