Doomsday

My system died. Yours will too. This prompted me to seek cloud storage. I found one site that gives you 7GB free, with auto-backup, and another that gives you 50GB free, apparently w/o auto-backup.

UPDATE  The auto-backup conflicted with WAMPP, giving me odd and misleading error messages.  I've offloaded it rather than solve the conflict. If you don't use WAMPP, you will likely not have a conflict.

Here's my theory: I keep current work in a single subdirectory. I have an archive directory that contains everything that has been in the current work directory, but has been completed. This directory is about 9GB. I zipped this directory down to about 6GB, and stored it on the second site.

In the meantime, the first site does auto-backup of my current work directory. As I approach the 7GB limit of this site, I'll begin to remove work to the archive directory. Then I'll zip and store it on the second site.

When my machine died, I still had all of my data on two HDDs, but it took me a while to retrieve it. This is because both drives were in the same machine. Literally minutes after the failure, I needed access to the data on those drives, but I couldn't get it immediately. I might have stored the redundant backup on an external drive. But even that might fail in, for instance, the kind of disaster that brought a wildfire within two blocks of my residence last year.

One other hidden benefit of the failure of my machine besides the fact that the replacement is faster and more up-to-date is that I have replaced all of the programs that I use with the newest versions.

SEE ALSO:

• These older posts on file management. Note that this posting is shown at the top.
• EaseUS TODO Backup. This may be an even better solution. However, I have not tested it. I do not see a file size limitation listed. I wonder.
• Symform. 100GB of free backup if you allocate 150GB of your local storage capacity to a distributed system of data storage. I didn't go for it because I did not want to take the time to discover what I might not like about such a system.
• Cloud Experience. 10GB free.
• uploadingit.com. 10GB free.
• Drops, unlimited storage. No more limits on file storage, only 50 Mb limit per one file. Untested by The Curmudgeon, because who has time?