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Mozy Home Unlimited Winners – Announcement!

Posted on 18. Oct, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Wow, what a great response we had with our Mozy Home Unlimited Giveaway!

Thank you to everyone who participated!

We wish we could have given away a Mozy subscription to everyone that entered, but only 3 could win.  We hope you had fun participating in our contest, be sure to keep coming back for all of our great articles and even more giveaways in the future!

The winners of the giveaway were chosen using a random number generator.  Here is a representation of how we chose the winners.  We took the total number of entries and ran the generator 3 times in order to pick the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.

Without further adieu, I’d like to announce and congratulate the winners!

1st Prize – 2 Year Subscription to Mozy Home Unlimited: Vanessa Sandoval – Posted to Twitter

2nd Prize – 1 Year Subscription to Mozy Home Unlimited: Max Sal – Posted to Twitter

3rd Prize – 6 Month Subscription to Mozy Home Unlimited: Sampath Iroshan – Posted to Facebook

I am so pleased to congratulate the winners!  I know from personal experience that Mozy is an excellent backup solution, this is a great prize.  The winners can be assured that their data will be safe.  If you didn’t win, remember, you can get a limited, 2GB, Mozy Home subscription for Free!  So head on over to Mozy and get your data backed up!

We’ve notified Mozy with the winner’s contact information, if you haven’t already been contacted then you will in the next few days.

A big thanks goes out to Mozy for partnering with LostInTechnology and making this contest possible!

(By) Douglas Reynolds is an application developer, holds a degree in Software Engineering, and owns an independent Flex application development consulting company.  He maintains a personal and technology blog located at dougrdotnet.  His business Web site is located at Douglas Reynolds Consulting.  Find him on Twitter @dougrdotnet and LinkedIn.

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Don’t Forget! Register For Our Mozy Giveaway

Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

There are only a few days left to register for your chance to win one of THREE Mozy Home Unlimited Backup subscriptions from LostInTechnology.  Just go to my previous post about the contest, and follow the instructions to enter the contest.

Mozy is a simple to use off-site backup service.  The Mozy client (backup tool) is easy to use and provides automated backup scheduling features that make it a breeze to create automatic backups.  Never worry about forgetting to backup your data again, let Mozy take care of it for you.  Your data is stored safely in a secure remote location, ensuring that your data is available in case of any type of failure or disaster.  With the unlimited backup subscription, you’ll have the ability to backup your entire computer and recover your entire hard drive in the event of a worst-case loss.

So, what are you waiting for?  Go register!

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Mozy Home Unlimited Giveaway!

Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Win A Mozy Home Unlimited Subscription!

That’s right, we’re giving away some Mozy Home Unlimited love!

Mozy is a secure off-site backup service that I personally use as part of my backup scheme.  When combined with my on-site backup I am assured that I can get my data back, even in the event that my on-site archives are destroyed.  What’s all this fuss about backups anyway?  Keep reading to find out more about Mozy and how to win a free subscription!

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An Introduction to Version Control

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Version Control (VC) is a system of keeping track of files, or sets of file states as they change over time.  More succinctly, it is a change management system, sometimes referred to as revision control or source control. Using a Version Control System (VCS), an individual or team can keep track of changes that occur and save versions of those changes (change sets) that may later be referenced, rolled-back (reverted), shared between multiple people working on the same files or merged.  VCS functions as a method of making incremental backups that fit nicely into existing work flows.

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HDClone Review – Cloning A Windows Virtual Drive

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

HDClone is a utility for cloning physical or logical drives.  Cloning is the process of copying the exact contents of one drive to another.  Although the drives themselves may be different, various sizes (the target drive cannot be smaller), partition schemas, drive types (i.e. IDE, SATA, SATAII), the data from the source drive will be duplicated exactly on the second drive.

Cloning is an excellent method of creating bootable backups which will indeed suffice to allow the direct replacement of one drive with another, thus allowing booting up to an exact representation of the original drive from the cloned one.  Cloning is also an excellent approach to drive upgrade.

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How To Upgrade Your MacBook Hard Drive – Part 3

Posted on 01. Aug, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Last time, I completed detailing the steps needed to clone a disk image to an external drive using SuperDuper.  The process was quite seamless and very simple, SuperDuper did a great job and stands up to its name.  We ended up doing some general comparisons between the old and new drive and are now ready to remove the new drive from the external enclosure, remove the old drive from a MacBook, and install the new drive in its place.  We’ll then boot up with the new drive to see how it went.

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How To Upgrade Your MacBook Hard Drive – Part 2

Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

I left off in Hard Drive Upgrade with an external drive prepared and ready to receive an image of my existing primary drive.  That article discussed backup strategies, a list of items needed in order to perform the data migration and what is needed in order to get started. We then stepped through the process of formatting and partitioning an external drive.

In this article, we are going to go through the process of using SuperDuper.

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How To Set Up An External Drive Enclosure

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

An external drive is an excellent way to create on-site backups of your data.  External drives are quite small and can function perfectly for taking your data with you and sharing on other host computers.  Often times, organizing large files, such as video projects, images, audio, etc. are more conveniently stored on an external drive, especially when local disk space is a consideration.  Using an external drive is one of the easiest ways to transfer a disk image to a new drive in the effort of upgrading one’s primary drive.

For my personal situation, which was to create an image of my existing drive and transfer it onto an upgrade drive, I decided that an external drive was better, faster, cheaper.

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