it’s carbonite, not kryptonite …

These days, computers are both a blessing and a modern torture device.  Mine started having little glitches a few weeks ago.  The wireless mouse kept winking in and out.  Itunes disappeared with all my music.  And it started getting slower and slower.  One day, it crashed 4 times and needed 15 minutes to reboot. Each time. 10 minutes to get on line.   Of course it was 6 weeks out of warranty.   It turns out that one piece of software broke down and corrupted a few different systems. After about 25 hours with support trying to fix it, we decided the only way to really get it 100% done is to do a complete system restore!  Which means losing everything.  That’s the bad news.

The good news is,  just one month before I had purchased an on-line backup system through Carbonite.   For a pretty low fee, it backed up every single music file, video of the kids, and photograph, plus all of my documents.   That was over 29,000 files all together, and a lot of data to lose.  I’m not usually that lucky.  Usually, the computer crashes and I cry.  A lot.  

The other good part about this system is that it is set up to automatically back up every file as I save it to my computer.  And if I need a file anywhere in the world, I can go into their remote access section and get a copy of it.  

We’re living in a digital world.  We have half of our lives stored in these little boxes.  And as I recently read somewhere, it isn’t a question as to whether your computer will fail, but when.   It happened to me, even with regular maintenance and being fairly computer savvy.  So save your self a little heartache and back up those files.   I use an external hard drive AND Carbonite.  (Once bitten, twice shy!)  It is restoring all my files even as I type this.  

I figured, if this can save just ONE person here from computer heartache, it was worth the post.  And since a post isn’t a post without a photo, here’s one of those too!

Have a great day.

Best,

Stephanie