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[...] Backup your data! – How much time would you lose if your hard drive crashed?  “Data loss statistics reveal that more than 22 percent of computer users say backing up information is on their to-do list, but they seldom do it and nine percent admitted they have never backed up their files.” – via My Dollar Plan [...]

Jungle Disk can be set to run on a schedule. I backup once a week. The first backup is a full backup and takes a while (depending on your internet connection). The weekly backups are incremental (only the files that are new or have changed) and usually go quickly. Jungle Disk also runs as a service in the background so you can continue to use your computer while it works.

Backing up over the internet to a remote site will obviously take longer, so do these programs just run in the background and constantly backup files?

[...] Two Dollars had a timely post on online backup services. I’ve looked for something like this in the past but never took the [...]

Mike

$0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB – data transfer out / month over 50 TB

So it would cost me about 40 cents to recover my data should I ever need it.

Mike

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[...] Do You Back Up Your Financial Data? I don’t do it like this, though perhaps I should… [...]

Clients for Windows & Mac.

Tip: if you use tax software, print a copy of your tax return in .PDF format.

[...] My Dollar Plan goes off the typical personal finance path by asking us "do you back up your financial data?"  [...]