http:\/\/www.livedrive.com\/?tid=3XJRWCF7<\/a><\/p>\n The briefcase service maps a web-folder to your computer as a network drive, works with mac or pc…or even FTP, so if you use Linux (like I sometimes do), you can set up a script to ftp to it as well.<\/p>\n Plus, there is a web interface on livedrive.com<\/a> that will allow you to access, download or even view some files on-line. \u00a0So, if you are ever at a client’s site, or friends, and forgot something, its there if you can get to an internet connection.<\/p>\n We are most interested in the back-up services. \u00a0They are pretty easy to configure. \u00a0At install, a wizard will walk you through set-up, and if you ever need to change settings you can open the “live drivecontrol panel” from your start menu and modify the backup settings in the services tab.<\/p>\n The first back-up may take several days to run, so just leave the computer on, after that, it runs small changes and goes much more quickly.<\/p>\n If you don’t like LiveDrive, use something, just make sure you back-up your work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A technical recommendation; a long-time client just lost several months of medical data from a crashed hard-drive and has to re-enter it from printout. \u00a0It will cost them $1000’s. \u00a0I hate to see that. If you are *not* running a web-driven backup solution then go set one up now; they are reasonably priced, effective and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[26,27,38],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Live](\"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-24-2011-livedrive1-253x300.jpg\" "\\"5-24-2011-livedrive1\\"")
<\/a>Once installed, it has a pretty easy to use control panel with two major services:<\/p>\n![\"Select](\"http:\/\/www.techivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-24-2011-livedrive2-300x229.jpg\" "\\"5-24-2011-livedrive2\\"")
<\/a>Click the “manage backup settings” you will get a file tree. \u00a0To make sure that you get proper back-ups, you need to know where your various software stores the information you want to back-up. \u00a0In current windows software most information is stored under the user directory under “appdata” but some older programs (like the medical billing program this client uses) store data in directories off the C: drive or elsewhere. \u00a0You can usually find out where data is stored by looking in the software’s preferences or settings. \u00a0If you have trouble, contact the vendor, or let someone like me know<\/a>, who can probably find it by remote desktop if needed.<\/p>\n