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Tech Tip - Great On-Line Backup Service for PC or Servers

Submitted by Michael LeBlanc on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 5:19pm.

Fellow CEO'ers:

This belongs in a new topic -- Tech Tips.

I found a very good on-line computer backup solution that is affordable. We've been trying to find a service that we could use to remotely backup our important files. So far any on-line solution we saw was typically between $50 and $500/month for the sizes we needed backed up (10GB, 50GB, 100GB, etc.) And we're tired of doing backup tapes. 

The "Carbonite" service (www.Carbonite.com) is only $49.95 per YEAR and they offer an "unlimited" amount of space for that fee. I signed up recently and backed up about 20 Gigabytes from our server and it was very successful. I noticed them on a recent press release (they've now raised $47MM).

I recommend it. There is a good review on www.pcmag.com (search for "Carbonite review") if you want to read more.

You should probably install it on your server, and might have to get a different account if you want your Personal PC backed up. It may take a day or two the first time, then minutes each day thereafter just to backup the changes. You could even restore a single file if needed one day if it gets deleted.

This gets one more thing off my list of worries.

See you all soon! 

 Michael T. H. LeBlanc LeBlanc Communications Group, Inc.

38 High Ridge Road, Redding, CT 06896

(800) 899-8642, (203) 395-1385 Cell     Michael@LeBlanc.com

Outsourcing: Quickbooks Hosting?

Submitted by John Engel on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 8:03pm.

I need inexpensive hosting for Quickbooks. We looked into this before and finally just bought a server, bought Microsoft's server software and bought Quickbooks and now we host this ourselves. But, hosting a server is not our expertise and I would prefer to outsource this again. Any suggestions?

Already we outsource our bookkeeping and all of the input to the quickbook server comes from Manila, Philippines (www.shiftresources.com) but now I want to outsource the server itself.