Wright PC Consulting, LLC » Backups

Backing up your Android’s mail: An important chore

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:31:05 +0000

Personal and professional emails that you send and receive from associates, friends, and family buzz between your Android device and the Google servers with ease, and you rarely, if ever, think about what would happen, if someday, that relation ship were to fail.

Backupify Offering a Free Year

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:45:38 +0000

Backupify is offering one year free for the Pro 100 plan for those who simply ask (using pro code savegmail)! The cloud based backup solution uses Amazon Web Services’ S3 service to backup you Google account Email, Docs, Calendar and other Googlified data. So, why the generosity? According to their blog post, it seems to [...]

Google Secrets Exposed: A Data Center Tour

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:35:58 +0000

Take a peek inside a Google data center to see how the big boys do it (personal transport device included).

Google Apps and cPanel 11/WHM 11

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:17:44 +0000

After several weeks of trial and error, Wright PC Consulting has finally made a transition to Google Apps for mail and other services. This transition has no direct affect on current or future clients. As a Google Market Place vendor, we have helped others smoothly migrate to the Google Apps platform before. However, while the [...]

There’s Data in them Walls!

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:35:10 +0000

You don’t have to be involved in super secret espionage to value the ability to hide your data from prying eyes. Heck, the folks at Instructables.com have been showing us how to hide money in all sorts of geeky places to keep the bad guys from find it; so why not data? This interesting, if [...]

Finding a Local Data Center

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:19:12 +0000

Anyone who has tried to find a local data center for collocation, hosting or other services knows that it is not always easy. An easy to use and navigate website, datacentermap.com makes that search easier. And, because users can update their database, new centers can easily be added as they go live. Here are the [...]

Why off site backups for hosts?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:50:03 +0000

Backing up customer data both internally and off site is really the only way to fully mitigate potential disaster.

HostDime Power Failure Explanation

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:19:38 +0000

Early in the morning on Friday, May 23, 2008 power was lost at the HostDime data center that houses Wright PC Consulting, LLC's leased server. While, that is not that big of a deal, there are both UPS and a Generator for such occasions, what followed is. Here is what happened and what is being done to prevent such future failures.

Earth Day 2008: Unexpectedly Greener

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:50:28 +0000

Losing my server had me reviewing my need for a server all together. However, after a couple of weeks the final result is one less computer running and using energy and I have my data where I need it as before.

Enterprise Level, off Site Storage

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:20:02 +0000

In my post a few months ago I discussed the online backup solution that I recommend to my clients, Mozy. EMC, Mozy’s parent company has recently introduced their enterprise level solution, Mozy Enterprise for those organizations with enterprise level needs. While I’ve not tried it nor do any of my clients use it, the features [...]