| "What happens to all of the inventory data on your | | | | tools are all free and easy to use, and you can be |
| computer if it's stolen or destroyed in a disaster?" As | | | | backing up your data to the internet within 15 minutes. |
| a producer of Home Inventory Software, we often get | | | | Ready to get started? Here's what you'll need to do: |
| this question when discussing our product. Although we | | | | |
| have an answer for that (with a feature that allows | | | | 1. Create an Amazon S3 account (5 minutes). Create |
| users to send their data to a remote email server for | | | | your account here. |
| off-site storage), not all applications have this | | | | 2. Install and configure Jungle Disk (5 minutes). Get |
| functionality built-in, so a solution which could be applied | | | | Jungle Disk here [ Although your data will only be |
| consistently for all applications would be quite helpful. | | | | accessible to you, you may want to check out the |
| Welcome Amazon S3 | | | | encryption options if you're planning to store sensitive |
| This back-end web service from provides secure, | | | | data. |
| reliable, remote storage for your data on the internet | | | | 3. Install and configure Net Drive (3 minutes). Get Net |
| for only 15 cents per gigabyte per month. There is no | | | | Drive here [ Create a "New Site" and set the Site |
| minimum fee, no start up fee, and you pay only for | | | | Address/URL to: [ (or the value configured in Jungle |
| what you use. You'll pay for bandwidth costs in | | | | Disk). Set the Server Type to WebDav, and choose a |
| addition to the storage, so you don't want to be | | | | drive letter for accessing your new remote storage. |
| uploading the entire contents of your hard drive every | | | | That's all there is to it. The next time you open "My |
| day, but for simple backup of important files, you just | | | | Computer", you'll see your new drive lette!r which looks |
| can't find a better deal than this. As an example, you | | | | and acts just like a hard drive on your computer. You |
| could store 100 pictures of 1 MB each for only 1.5 | | | | can use this drive for backing up your Home Inventory |
| cents/month! Store 1000 pictures of 1 MB each for | | | | data, as well as pictures, spreadsheets, word |
| only 15 cents/month! | | | | documents, or any other files from 1 byte to 5 |
| Set up your tools: | | | | gigabytes each. |
| To get this all to work requires some setup, but the | | | | |