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If you’re like me you never back up your computers…stupid i know, but hay, there isn’t really a lot i don’t mind loosing or reinstalling……until now.

I’ve a 7 month old, and unless you’re a parent, you’ll be amazed at the amount of photos or video you start to take, obviously these are priceless so i though i better think about backups.

First one is obvious, external hard drive, check done, backed up all photos and videos to it and moved it away from the computer incase it gets damaged.

DVD’s, yup just in case the hard drive fails here another way of backing up. Ok so i think i’m done, but hmmmm what if the house burns down? ahaa offsite backups…i suppose i could take a copy to the parents or inlaws, but i don’t want to have to do that everytime i get new photos or make another backup…..in comes SPIDEROAK and online backup service. To quote from their site

“SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora) ”

WHAT? cross platform clients, including linux? awesome Works perfectly on my Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows 7, and Vista machines….

For the moment i’ve only gone for the free 2gb, but from what i’ve seen so far, it’s install client, select what to backup and go. The great thing is you can create sync’s, so if you want a photo folder to be the same on all pc’s you subscribe you can. Brill.

Once i’ve had a play i’ll decide if i want to go with the paid plan, which gives me 100GB for $10 a month, which if you’re using sterling is £6.60 a month, FTW!

Any one use this? Comments welcome.

*UPDATE*
I’ve decided to go with the paid service and currently am paying $9.99 for 100GB, which is totally plenty for my needs, so can’t recommend this highly enough, for now at least If you decide you want to try it out your self, then click the banner at the right hand side of the main website or this link – Spideroak