2 more backup questions

Sorry for all the ?'s girls...do any of you backup your full res 12x12 layouts anywhere online? I am whizzing through this backup right now...it's taking about 20 minutes per disc so I'll be finished in a few hours, no problems. Backing up was my top priority today but since it looks like I'll have a little bit of free time once I'm done, I think I may scrap a few pages to get caught up on my CT work. I don't have any CD's with me here, only DVD's. Is there a way to just backup a few full res layouts without wasting a whole DVD to do so? Can you use photobucket or shutterfly or email them to yourself...or 4shared or what? Which way is the best/easiest?

And speaking of...I did a dumb thing and somehow accidentally deleted ALL 85 pregnancy layouts I had done between all 3 pregnancies. I did this AFTER uploading them to shutterfly last week and sending the books off for printing...the finished books will be here any day but I like to have a digital copy too. does anyone know if there is a way to redownload my layouts from Shutterfly back to my computer? Thanks

I don't know about redownloading from SF but I think you can order a DVD of your images.
Archive DVDs

Why not just use Mozy online? I think that is what it is called. You can have everythng on the computer backed up and have it all reset when you fix the problems?

ETA:I just checked and it is called Mozy. Im not sure if you can set what needs to be backed up or not but it is totally free up to 2 gigabytes and after that only 4.95 a month. Five bucks a month cant be beat for peace of mind when you accidentally delete something important or have some kind of hard drive failure

I have a gmail email account through google and I upload all my full size layouts there. I'm not sure if it is the best way or fastest way but that's what I do.

jessica31876 said:

Why not just use Mozy online? I think that is what it is called. You can have everythng on the computer backed up and have it all reset when you fix the problems?

ETA:I just checked and it is called Mozy. Im not sure if you can set what needs to be backed up or not but it is totally free up to 2 gigabytes and after that only 4.95 a month. Five bucks a month cant be beat for peace of mind when you accidentally delete something important or have some kind of hard drive failure

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Mozy is totally an option but it can take weeks to do your initial backup and I don't have weeks. And THAT is if you are online 24/7 through a cable modem, etc.

Since moving in here with my BFF, she doesn't have wireless internet....so I've only been going out to her living room and manually connecting to the internet using a Cat5 cable once she's asleep, so as not to infringe on her computer time. So I'm only online if she's at work or asleep....then last week I gave in and bought a Sprint airtime card ($200 for the card + $60/mo for the service and it works off of Sprint's cell phone towers) so that I'll have my "own internet" so to speak, but it seems kind of slow to me. They say it's the speed of DSL but IMO it's somewhere between dial up and DSL if you ask me. Anyway the card itself I got for free with contract so it's not a bad deal but just a bit slow. nice to have internet anywhere I go but I think an initial mozy backup would take a month at this connection speed!

I upload all of my photos and full-size layout jpegs to my Smugmug account. There's a yearly fee but for me, it's worth it.

Helen

DVDs are pretty cheap--if you're going to be wiping your computer tonight, I'd go ahead and waste the DVD on those LOs. I'd also back up online if there's time. (But hey, I'm paranoid about losing things.) Mozy allows you to select what you want to back up. Most of our initial backups take weeks because we are backing up everything on our HD. If you unchecked most of the folders that are set to back up and just did a folder with those LOs, I think it would be pretty fast. If it looks like Shutterfly is going to be burning a DVD for you (and thank goodness those LOs are all safely uploaded and off to print!), you could also upload there and just have them add these to the DVD.

I have heard that you can upload to winkflash and then download the high res file again later!