We’d like to thank Donna, one of our InfoAve Premium subscribers, \t\t\tfor sending us this Web site suggestion.<\/p>\n
We’re big fans of image-based backups (hard drive clones) – they’re \t\t\tthe only backups that really save all your data and allow you to \t\t\trestore your computer completely – quickly and easily. But that’s \t\t\tnot to say there isn’t a place for file-by-file backups. There are \t\t\ttimes when you might need to access a file that you’ve accidentally \t\t\tdeleted or heaven knows what else caused it to disappear, and you \t\t\tdon’t really want to do an entire restore from an image-based backup \t\t\tto recover those three pictures of that Diluvian Cactus you were so \t\t\tintrigued with. Those were award-winning photos – and you know it. \t\t\tYou’ve been saving them for years waiting for a cactus-photo contest \t\t\tto start so you could enter and win the big prize. But now they’re \t\t\tgone. You don’t know where. You’re sure your image-based backup has \t\t\tthem but restoring from an image-based backup seems a bit of \t\t\toverkill for three pictures of a cactus. And yes, your image-based \t\t\tbackup does allow you to extract individual files, but well, you \t\t\twish you would have kept another backup somewhere, just so you could \t\t\tget those cactus pictures fast. Because starting today, a \t\t\tcactus-photo contest has started and you want that $10,000.00 first \t\t\tprize.<\/p>\n
So sometimes a file-by-file backup is convenient, but it doesn’t \t\t\treplace or supercede the need for a good image-based backup.<\/p>\n
All of this leads up to Digital Lifeboat. It’s a new cloud-based \t\t\tbackup service that allows you backup your files to a Web server \t\t\twhere they’ll be kept safe and secure (as long as you have a strong \t\t\tpassword) for you. And what’s really unique about Digital Lifeboat \t\t\tis that right now during their beta-testing phase, they’re offering \t\t\teveryone unlimited (that’s right – unlimited) backup space. So if \t\t\tyou have 200GBs of stuff you need to backup – and you have a \t\t\thigh-speed Internet connection – you should take a look at Digital \t\t\tLifeboat. We don’t know how long the beta-testing phase will last, \t\t\tso now is the time to take advantage of this really great \t\t\topportunity. Anyone who signs up during the beta-testing phase will \t\t\thave unlimited backup space for life. Pretty good deal!<\/p>\n
We signed up for Digital Lifeboat and this is the letter we received \t\t\tfrom them. Note we’ve removed the links since the links are specific \t\t\tto this one computer. You can sign up with Digital Lifeboat and get \t\t\tyour own letter :-).<\/p>\n
“Thank you for trusting Digital Lifeboat to protect your digital \t\t\tphotos, music, video and other important computer files on your pc.<\/p>\n We are already working hard to backup all your digital treasures in \t\t\tour advanced and secure system. Our system automatically backs up \t\t\tall your photos, files, music and videos in your user directory. If \t\t\tyou would like to protect photos, music, videos and documents which \t\t\tare stored in a location other than the user directories, click here \t\t\tto learn how. If you would like to learn how to both include and \t\t\texclude files to backup and protect, click here.<\/p>\n We begin by backing up smaller files, and move towards your larger \t\t\tfiles. The amount of time it takes to back up your files will be \t\t\tdetermined by how much data you have, the speed of your internet \t\t\tconnection, and the amount of time you are online. Help us help you! \t\t\tPlease keep your PC turned on and connected to the internet as much \t\t\tas possible.<\/p>\n You will receive emails as we pass 25%, 50% and 75% completion of \t\t\tthe backup. You can also go to the Digital Lifeboat Tray Application \t\t\ton your Desktop and click it to see your status, pause our service, \t\t\tand visit Your Account on our website.<\/p>\n To reach the Digital Lifeboat Support Team, click here.<\/p>\n Thanks again for choosing Digital Lifeboat! “<\/em><\/p>\n An awesome opportunity to \t\t\treceive unlimited space for your backups is available to you right \t\t\tnow – today<\/a>. Who knows how long this offer will last. All we can \t\t\ttell you is that this is a good deal. If you’re interested in \t\t\tgetting unlimited cloud-storage for your backups, now is the time to \t\t\tvisit www.digitallifeboat.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n Thanks for sending us this information Donna. I thank you, EB thanks \t\t\tyou, and hundreds of readers thank you – especially the lady with \t\t\tthe cactus pictures. Oh, I don’t know, I think her name is Madelyn. \t\t\tOr was it Melinda? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’d like to thank Donna, one of our InfoAve Premium subscribers, for sending us this Web site suggestion. We’re big fans of image-based backups (hard drive clones) – they’re the only backups that really save all your data and allow you to restore your computer completely – quickly and easily. But that’s not to say there isn’t a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[1173,1340,200,1341],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}