How do you feel when your laptop breaks down, you take it to the service centre and the repair guy tells you that all your data will be formatted? I bet its a very pathetic feeling. At that time you would wish that somehow you could save that very important file you would need in the future.
Now, what can you do to prevent such a situation and save youself from the agony and dissapointment. One possible solution is that you could save your very important files on a pen drive or a flash drive. You may get yourself a 2gb or a 4gb pen drive which will cost you around 250-500 Rupees.
One other solution is that you could save you files using a external hard drive. A 500 gb external hard drive is available for approx 3,000 Rupees in the grey market(even less if you know the art of bargaining :p ).500 gb is enough space to nearly back up everything you have on your on board hard drive.
The problem with both these options of backing up your files using external memory is that you will have too loosen your pocket and get ready to shell out some cash. With time the external hard disk may stop working, hence this may not be a fool proof method.
So what is the way to get out of this fix. Well, why not use the power of the internet to save your files. There are a host of online hosting services available on the net which back up your content on their servers.
One such very popular web based file hosting service is Dropbox. Dropbox is a free and paid serice with different plans for different storage sizes. Recently the company launched Dropbox 1.0 two years after releasing the first beta Dropbox. Dropbox is a cross platform service supporting Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and all popular mobile device platforms.
Dropbox provides 2 gb of free storage sapce(what you would get in a normal pen drive). As the name suggests, the service allows users to simply drop their files in the Dropbox folder on their machine. The files that are dropped in the Dropbox folder automatically get uploaded onto the cloud. The functionality is further enhanced as people can have Dropbox folders on more than one machine and can hence share any file without having to send it as an attachment.
Hence Dropbox is a potential life saver for those who are crippled without crucial files or folders. You can manage the free 2 gp of space provided wisely. upload all your bookmarks onto the cloud through Dropbox and enjoy using them on any internet enabled machine on earth.
You can download Dropbox at www.dropbox.com and enjoy a hopefully more tension free life when your laptop breaks down next time.
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