Three Steps to a Free Laptop Backup

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I use Dropbox to maintain a near real-time backup of my important data. You can too. Here's how to get started.
  1. Sign up on the Dropbox site. You get 2 GB of storage for free!
  2. Download and install the Dropbox client. It's a very small file that installs quickly.
  3. Put files in your Dropbox folder. What could be easier?
The software client constantly monitors your "My Dropbox" folder for changes and copies them automatically to the "cloud". You can retrieve your data even if you lose your laptop, save over an important file, or your hard drive crashes.

Some other nice features of Dropbox include:
  1. Retrieve your data from the web site using any computer.
  2. Share files via the "public" folder instead of email or FTP.
  3. Recover a previous version of a file to undo a mistake.

Watch this video to learn even more about Dropbox.



I recommend you try Dropbox. It's simple, quick, and just might save your bacon. Give it a try and then let me know how you like it.

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