You can either tear out your hair when a disaster strikes your data or you can prepare for it ahead of time with cloud backup
But that disaster is going to happen eventually, either way
An online backup service is one of the best ways to protect yourself against the loss of precious data, whether it’s the result of a crashed hard drive or an unintentional deletion
Natural disasters such as fires, floods, and earthquakes can also spell the end of your digital media and documents
Even if you’re among the very few who diligently perform local backups at regular intervals, you could still lose data if you don’t store backups offsite
Online Cloud Backup Services
Online backup services scan your hard drive for files worthy of protecting, encrypt them for security, and send them up to the cloud
There’s no such place as “the cloud” of course; this just means powerful, secure, and high-storage-capacity remote server computers attached to the internet with fast connections
Once your files are stored on those online servers, you can access and restore your data from anywhere, should a file go missing or a hard drive crash unexpectedly
Most services also let you view and download your files from a web browser or mobile device
Though there’s some overlap, online backup services shouldn’t be confused with cloud storage and file syncing services like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
Those services do store files in the cloud, but they aren’t designed to automatically protect all important documents and media files, let alone system files
Their strategy is generally to sync just one folder with all its subfolders to the cloud, and in some cases to offer online collaborative document editing
Many backup services now offer similar folder-syncing capabilities, but few syncing services offer full-scale backup functionality
Weztec offer a number of solutions based on your requirements and help when recovering a device in for a computer repair