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The Frog Blog: Ridiculously Simple Ways to Back Up and Recover Your Digital Life

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Backup Plans - Natural & Technological

  
  
  
  
  
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The Golden Poison Frog can be found on the Pacific coast of Colombia, enjoying the tranquility of the rainforest with plentiful rain, high temperatures, and high relative humidity of 80–90%. In the wild, the Golden Poison Frog is a social animal. It lives in groups of up to six individuals, and can count on this community to help warn it of imminent threats.

Backup Resources

  
  
  
  
  
Data backup and recovery technologies can seem complicated, even daunting at times. But when you get down to it, backing up your data is really like most other tasks or hurdles - break it down into simple questions, and look up the answers. In this spirit, Rebit is here to help with the Rebit Backup Resource Center - articles, manuals, blogs, and white papers to make things simple and prevent you from losing your data (and your cool). Check it out - and if your question doesn't seem to be answered, just ask!

Data Backup and a Minefield of Choices

  
  
  
  
  
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The more choices we make, and the more things we have to remember, the more likely we are to make a mistake. The process of software installation is a good example. Software installations frequently present us with a multi-step wizard to aid in making choices easier. But if the choices presented are confusing or unfamiliar, the results may fall short of the intended result. Typically, choices about files types and folders, referred to as a backup set, are required to set up backup applications.

Popular Backup Blogs

  
  
  
  
  

We've covered a number of important and interesting topics in the field of data backup & recovery over the last few months. From Outlook backup to redundancy to living virtually in 2012, check out a few of the most popular:

Webinar Tomorrow: Outlook Backup Best Practices

  
  
  
  
  
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The webinar already took place, but you can still watch it and get the slides here.

Seamless Hybrid Backup Technology Has Arrived!

  
  
  
  
  

As we've discussed in this blog, there are many kinds of backup, and each is susceptible to its own unique list of vulnerabilities. Local backup to disk failure, theft, and elemental damage, NAS backup to server failure, IT sabotage, or hacking, and cloud backup to any combination of these and other issues that might afflict the specific area where the data is stored, or the network it employs. This brings us to the addage "don't put all your eggs in one basket". When you diversify your backup solution, your greatly enhance the safety and recoverability of your data.

Webinar: Outlook Backup Best Practices

  
  
  
  
  

Join us for a brief, educational webinar and learn about Outlook (and Office) backup and recovery best practices, what to do with your growing PST file and how to avoid deadly crashes or data loss. Many professionals don't realize the enormous size and complexity of their Outlook and Office databases. Backing up the PST files (and other associated files), and doing so properly, is a must for businesses, professionals and even consumers using Microsoft solutions. Topics include: 

Backup Safety & Reliability: Redundancy

  
  
  
  
  

There are many and various ways that users can backup data. The vast majority of these fall under the category of local backup. This can take the form of a CD, DVD, HDD, Flash (USB), or other media. Regardless of how "safe" or reliable a local backup device may be, it is inevitably vulnerable to elemental damage (water, fire, etc.) and outside influences (theft or sabotage). Thus the need for security through redundancy.

Backup 2012: The Safe Has Gone Virtual

  
  
  
  
  

With so many important files on a business computer, it can be difficult to ascertain which should receive priority in getting backed up. Fortunately, intelligent backup devices accomodate much more than a safe ever could. Passwords, credit card information, titles, deeds, business reports and invoices, drawing and videos and notes from loved ones - it will all fit and it all needs protection. Of course digital property is more vulnerable than physical property in a number of ways.

Backup Principles - Simpler Is Still Better

  
  
  
  
  
Have you ever wondered why some tales and proverbs are still told after hundreds or even thousands of years? The subject has been found worthy of numerous books, including "Made To Stick". Proverbs that stick still have meaning today, millennia after they were coined. "Simpler is better" or "The simpler the better" is certainly a good example.

In ancient times, adding complexity to a simple task could result in injury, hunger, or even death. Today the consequences are less dire, yet there is still much to be gained from the message. Why leave your data backup to chance? Engaging in backup practices that require the user to remember them, is asking to be disappointed. 

There are any number of reasons why we might forget to backup, too many in fact to mention in this posting. When backup is automated, however, distractions cannot impede the process. So while life maintains its hectic pace, you may forget to pick up your dry cleaning, you might forget where you last placed the keys, or even an important date might slip your mind.
But if you use continuous automatic backup, there is at least one thing that you never have to be concerned about forgetting, and your mission critical data, is backed up, secure and worry free. Rebit automatic, continuous backup solutions - simpler is better - true back then - still true today.
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