Comments on: Your Business Backup Plan — Why You Need One

By: Amber Weinberg

Amber Weinberg — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:57:37 +0000

I bought a Tim Capsule from Apple, to not only make the house, printer, music, etc wireless but it also backs up the computer at set intervals so I never have to think about it again.

It was also pretty neat, when I bought my new Macbook, as soon as I plugged in the Time Capsule, it asked me to move all files (even the desktop picture) over to the new computer…Pretty nifty :)

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By: Hameedullah Khan

Hameedullah Khan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:31:21 +0000

Really like the peer idea, I have never thought of this way. Last week I wasn’t able to work because I was sick, if I had idea of peer help before I would have asked them to cover for me. But never mind, it will surely help me in future.

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By: The Week In Freelance: September 25th - The Freelance Rant

The Week In Freelance: September 25th - The Freelance Rant — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:10:29 +0000

[...] Freelance Folder: Sometime in your freelance career, some kind of disaster will strike such as loss of data, theft or even something health related that keeps you from working. It is not a matter of if it happens, but when, so you might want to start thinking about your backup plan now. [...]

By: Alex Lim

Alex Lim — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:21:39 +0000

Great article Laura,

Personally, I’ve already lost lots of data and encountered tons of issues before I realized to take action about building a back up plan.

To save me from anxiety of data loss, especially my article copies, I readily make drafts in my wordpress blog and schedule post them. In case, my computer crashes or the connection went out, I’m pretty confident that my blog will be running by itself.

I’m also thankful that I have someone to back me up in case of emergency. For simple projects, I usually delegate the work to my ever reliable brother. It keeps me moving despite my absence.

By: Eduardo Portillo

Eduardo Portillo — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:36 +0000

About the absolute chaos of a fire, earthquake (very familiar with that here in El Salvador), Tsunami or any catastrofical event or failure that can make you lost all digital and fisical backup at once, a client has gived me an advise “put all your contacts, and administrative “live” files in a a folder of your site, so you can access it anywhere” at first sounds crazy becouse the server can go down but that it happens joined with a fire in my office or any act of God is very unlikely to happen, so even in a catastrofy you can find a fresh brand new laptop (or a borrowed one) and retrieve that files to go running again.

The info I think you need to back up in that way are contacts, the digital copies of documentation only relevant to you, here you have “credito fiscal” is tax discount to bussiness and you must presenta a card issued by the tax offials to have it but a copy is valid since the discount is made when you pay the tax so is only useful to you, also you can put in this list copies of contracts and other documents of reference, I spen most of my time on the street and some times asked for budgets “on the run” and that backup has helped me to have a fast response to mi clients, this is not only for chaotical emergencies is also for little every day amergencies to.

By: BebopDesigner

BebopDesigner — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:42:55 +0000

Great advice! having your backups offsite… never thought of it, what a brilliant idea. Thanks.
Having a financial back up plan doesn’t hurt either, now does it?

Thanks for sharing

By: chris jackman

chris jackman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:18:37 +0000

My thoughts exactly. All of my work is on my laptop; I used to have nightmares about what would happen if I woke up one morning and it was dead.
So I bought a 1TB portable HDD and a copy of Norton Ghost and now all my hard drives are backed up there, and regularly updated. It is a weight off my shoulders I can tell you. All independent designers should have exactly the same back up policy as those implemented in a multinational, because the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about.

By: Laura Spencer

Laura Spencer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:01:43 +0000

I’m so glad that everyone seems to be backing up their data. It’s so important, and as Steve says, sooner or later your “power will go out.”

What other back up plans do you folks have for your business?