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Hi everyone, it's Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com and welcome to the dedicated channel where
I share with you outsourcing and automation tips.
In today's video, I want to share with you a backup service that I've just recently discovered
and I've been recommending to literally everyone I've been speaking too so I thought let me
share this with you on the blog. It's an awesome service and the service that I'm recommending
right now is called BackBlaze.com.
Now the reason why I was looking for a backup system was not because it was recently that
I had a crash or failure, just touch wood it doesn't happen, but I'm just flicking through
some magazines and I was reading up on information about backups and how to do them. And I myself
have also a portable hard drive that can you see right here which got about 350GB of space
on it and it's sufficient enough to be able to backup stuff that I've got on my computer.
But what I was getting frustrated was it just takes so long to be able to do it yourself
because manually you've got to copy all the files across. And even if I use TimeMachine
on my computer, I'd still need to plug it in and also make sure that it's been backed
up.
But the problem with that is that if for example, touch wood I'll lose that or I'll have a fire
or flood, just as recently up in Brisbane there's been flood, I'm in Sydney but things
like that, you can lose everything and that's the worst part about it is that you don't
know when those things will happen. And for insurance sake, you either backup your stuff
online or you basically backup or you send your hard drive or somewhere else out of your
location where your office is.
So I decided to go along and try to find a reasonably cheap service that could do an
automated backup of your whole hard drive and also back it up all online for you. And
this is a service that I recommend to you to checkout it's called BackBlaze and it's
just at BackBlaze.com.
Basically what happens is that for about $50 a year, it says here currently $5 per month
but if you buy on a yearly basis it's about 50bucks a year, you can backup literally everything
that's on your computer and it will upload all the files that you have on your computer
whilst your on auto-mode or whatever you're doing your work and you've got your computer
on and that just continually happens. And I'll just show an example, I've got BackBlaze
that's installed over here. There's my BackBlaze preferences and you can see right here I've
got about 36GB of data and there's about 21GB to go.
And, it takes a little bit of time, might take up to about 2 weeks to backup everything
that you have if you got a lot of data but it's well worth it because once it's backed
up, all it does is just update those files for you. So I'm just going to open up the
Preferences and just give you a quick overview.
Basically, it's quite simple. It just shows you what's here to backup and also too, how
often it's doing it and tells you exactly what's been backed up right now as we speak,
and there's also options here where you can click that says Restore Options which will
take you straight back into your account to be able to restore or look for any files up
there. And what it does is it just does a copy of whatever you've got on your computer
and it's awesome because of that.
So I'd highly recommend checking out, very simple thing. It's unlimited space and it's
only 50bucks per year and you can even get it cheaper if you buy it on two yearly basis
which is I've done. And for 90bucks for two years, man you can't really go wrong with
that because it's to spend that much money on a hard drive probably cost you about $200-300
and the hard drive might get used up over a period of say year or two you know, you
might as well just spend it on just getting everything backed up online. So check it out,
it's a great service and I highly recommend it.
Any feedback on any other services, just let me know. Leave it down the blog comment section
and I'd love to know what your feedback is on this particular service once you signed
up and - yeah, let me know how you go on that one.
All right, my name is Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com and thanks very much for watching this video
and I'll see you in the next one. Bye for now.