Comments on: Startup BizCast #23 – Backing Up Your Small Business Data (David Friend)

By: Steve Mullen

Steve Mullen — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:49:01 +0000

Thanks, Matthew. Always happy to hear about alternatives.

By: Matthew Dornquast

Matthew Dornquast — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:04:39 +0000

Great interview Steve, like to throw out a unique alternative: CrashPlan It's a unique alternative because unlike the rest of the online gang, you keep control of your data while backing up off-site. There are several advantages to this: No service fees, greater securirty, and you can back up to as many places as you want. Most importantly, you can get you data back much more quickly if total data loss occurs! It can take many days (even weeks) to get a large amount of data back from an online provider. Using CrashPlan, you can backup your laptop to the office and home. ~Matthew

By: Steve Mullen

Steve Mullen — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:23:43 +0000

Thanks for the tip, KK. I removed your link, but will be happy to put it back if you admit you work in some way for File Backup. Your comment about the “gold standard” just sounded too much like a PR guy for me.

Let me know if I’m wrong

By: KK Cuphak

KK Cuphak — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:44:09 +0000

Good stuff, good stuff.

I settled on File Backup -- simple name and simple offsite backup. It's based on the software that is the industry gold standard (the same software that the much more expensive Iron Mountain uses). Here is a link,,,

Cheers,