Gladinet + S3 = piece of mind

I just finished my initial backup of my personal data to Amazon S3 and I feel at ease knowing I could lose everything here in my office, but still have my data in the cloud. Things like family photos and videos are priceless to me. Ever see anyone after a house fire? What is the one thing they always mention? Photo albums... Memories. In our family (yours too probably) we have all of our pictures, movies, and music in digital format. I have a lot of other documents and work that I have done over the years that I wouldn't want to lose as well. I am sure you feel the same way.

My cloud on boarding method of choice? First I upgraded to Gladinet Pro. This is a great little app and it was only $50. Then I added my Amazon S3 bucket to Gladinet and I was ready to create a backup job. I spent some time purging superfluous data on my Stora NAS device first. Did I mention that unlike Mozy and Carbonite my data doesn't have to reside on a local drive with this setup? Once my job was configured I let it run for about 2 days. I left the job in "instant mode" so any changes to the source data are copied to S3 immediately. Now I don't have to manage my cloud backups at all. Any new data I save to the NAS will automagically find its way to the cloud. S3 storage only costs $.14 per GB/ month which I feel is a very fair price.

I have a lot of data to backup and I wanted the security of using S3. With Gladinet you can also use any of your free cloud drives as well. Like many people I also have MS Skydrive, DropBox, Box.net, and Google Docs accounts. You can easily connect to all of these and Gladinet will automatically map a network drive letter that aggregates them all. Then you are just a backup job away from adding that extra level of offsite data storage for real piece of mind. I know I feel better. I really like this solution because it is so flexible and inexpensive. I keep all of our data on our Stora NAS device which has redundant mirrored drives. Great idea until you try to use any of the popular tools like Mozy or Carbonite. You have to pay for the business level service to be able to backup network drives. With Gladinet you can backup any network drive to any cloud drive that you chose. I'm not even going to mention how nice it is to have a local drive letter already mapped to the cloud. Ok, I just did, but seriously... Check it out for yourself. I am sure you'll have piece of mind too.