The crash and burn of moderately popular blogging site Journalspace.com reminds us once again that regular, thorough backups of your data is the only way to stave off disaster.
Journalspace had been in business for five years and because they never made offsite backups (instead relying solely on a type of physical redundancy (RAID) system) lost all of their customers' data last week. The owners then threw in the towel and closed shop, leaving their bloggers scratching their heads.
For your home computer, you are foolish if you do not have automated backup software running. They are plentiful and cheap (if not free;) just Google "backup software" for your platform.
At work, the inability to install extra software, and the current ban on USB sticks in NIPR computers makes it more challenging.
If you are not interesting in relying fully on the Navy's IT solutions to ensure your data is safe, you are going to have do it yourself.
A simple method, for UNCLASS items, is to save your important data to a single folder, and once a week make a .zip file of the folder. The .zip file can then be emailed to your off-ship email account. Gmail, for example allows attachments of up to 20MB and unlimited storage space.
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