Protect Your Hard Work : How to Back It Up

This post was sponsored by Carbonite as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central.

When our first son was born, I spent hours managing his baby photos. I’d move them from the camera to the computer and then manually back them all up. It was 2010 and things were a lot different (even though that’s only 5 years ago!). It’s so much different than how we did things with my twins’ photos. Everything was backed up automatically. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard friends or a family member talk about their computer crashing and losing years of photos or important paperwork. My husband once dropped (and broke) his laptop and had never backed up his files for his dissertation and lost YEARS of work in one moment. And now that we have three little ones that like to play on the computer, there’s always the possibility of them deleting something accidentally. It has happened!

That’s why I love the idea of Carbonite! Carbonite helps to make sure you’ll always have your precious memories, important files and data– easily and at a low cost. They protect your irreplaceable files with automatic and secure cloud backup. Carbonite was developed after both co-founders had family members had lose data on their computers, much like my husband. David Friend’s daughter called him frantic after her hard drive had crashed containing her term paper she had worked on for six weeks. His partner Jeff’s wife lost years of baby photos and financial records when her laptop was stolen. It was after these incidents that David and Jeff founded Carbonite as a safe and secure backup system.

How It Works

INSTALL – Install Carbonite on your computer
BACK UP – Your files will be backed up automatically to the cloud.
RESTORE – With your files safely stored in the cloud, you can get them back anytime, whether you accidently delete a single file or have a complete hard drive failure.
ACCESS – You can access files from any Internet-connected computer or mobile device.

Easy, right? You’ll never have to worry about your files, photos or data ever again.

Carbonite is afforable, too! The Basic Plan is $59.99/year per computer. This includes all the essentials – Automatic online backup for your photos, music, documents and more. The Plus – $99.99/year per computer and includes a complete backup solution – Automatic online backup of your computer and external hard drive – plus a local backup of your operating system and software programs. Finally, the Prime – $149.99/year per computer. The top of the line plan with automatic video backup and the option to have a copy of your backup shipped to you anywhere in the United States, this is our most comprehensive solution for protecting home office and family computers.

With ALL plans you get unlimited cloud backup space, automatic and continuous backup, FREE premium support, easy restore, mobile app access and file safety/security. I love that the backups are automatic. There’s no needing to remember. Carbonite is working hard in the background to protect your files. With October having been Cyber Security Month, now is the time to start thinking about how safe and accessible your files are.