The Sewing Mom

This post brought to you by Carbonite. All opinions are 100% mine.

If you’ve ever had a computer crash, you know what I mean when I say BACK IT UP!

Last year my laptop became infected with a serious virus causing the entire operating system to crash.  I wound up having to pay a computer person to get it back up and running, then had to pay even more for him to restore all my documents and photos.  Soon after, the same thing happened to my desktop, and yes, both were infected even though I was running anti-virus software.  The desktop was even worse because my daughter had all her music loaded on there and it wasn’t able to be recovered.  She was so not happy with me!

I’ve recently learned that for only $59 a year, I could have running Carbonite in the background.  Carbonite is a  computer backup program that automatically backs up the files on a PC or even a Mac and stores all the information in one of their secure data centers.  The programs runs continuously in the background, so everything is automatic, no need to press any buttons, or remember to load any disks.  It also provides unlimited data back up so even all those music files of my daughter’s would’ve been stored for safe keeping.  I just wish I’d known about the program back then.

Carbonite has been in existence since 2005 (can’t believe I didn’t know about it).  While it doesn’t back up software programs, it will back up all your saved documents, photos, music and even email.  Whenever you like, you can even access your backed up files from your computer, smartphone, or even your iPad, yes, there is an app for that!

The Carbonite online backup program can be tried out for free for 15 days, plus, use the code BLOGAD to get 2 free months with purchase.