Website Review – Backupify
Written by Alan Thursday, 31 December 2009 08:00
Backupify is a new web site/service available HERE. It’s free if you sign up before January 31, 2010. This is a slightly different backup than what you’re used to.
Backupify backs up your online files. Right now they handle: Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogger and Hotmail. With YouTube, Xmarks, RSSFeed and Tumblt lsited as coming soon.
You do have to give your user names and passwords for each service to Backupify in order for the backup to work, so there’s a certain amount of trust involved here. I don’t use all of the services Backupify covers, but I do know that some require a plugin (such as WordPress) while others do not (such as Twitter).
This covers an important gap in our backup strategy though. We all think of making 2-3 copies of our home files – the original, one to an external drive and one to a cloud for example. But we never think that our online files exist in only one place. While we trust these services to have their own backups and to not go out of business, we have learned hard lessons lately from things such as Sidekick and GeoCities.
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