One-third of data is lost to user error, let alone hacker attempts
What would you do if you had a glitch with Facebook and your profile, pages, photos, videos, friends list, notes, events, links and statuses were lost?
What’s that sound? Anguish? Believe it. This happens. Not necessarily through any fault of yours. But I’ll let you Google those stories.
I want you to take a few moments to choose a back up service. For many, the service is FREE. So how can you beat that?
I have a couple choices for you to look at specifically when it comes to Facebook. Backupify and SocialSafe.
Backupify saves photos you have tagged, your friends, statuses, links, notes and events. You can set it to back up automatically daily, archive and export. It will require permission access to your Facebook account.
The free service offers up to 2 GB. At 10 GB you’ll need a Premium account for $39.95/year or for Business with 25 GB, $59.95/year. Still not bad pricing for that kind of insurance.
You can also back up the following services wit Backupify: Twitter, Wordpress, Gmail, Blogger, Hotmail, Flickr, Delicious, Google Docs, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, FriendFeed, Picasa and more.
Backupify says that in the next couple of weeks you’ll be able to back up just your Fan Pages separately from your Profile.
SocialSafe charges $2.99 to backup your Facebook friends, photos, profile and status updates. SocialSafe doesn’t currently back up Fan Pages, but has that on their boards for futures. Currently, SocialSafe doesn’t allow tagged photos to be downloaded due to 3rd party infringement issues. They are working on status updates and scheduled backups.
You’ll need to wait longer for your first backups. Backupify needs 24-48 hours the first time, for instance. For those of you on Firefox, check out the free Facebook archiving feature.
Backing Up Other Social Media
Did you know that Twitter only lets you see your most recent 3200 tweets? BackUpMyTweets has with free accounts, so get started! You can pull your files to your computer for review and manipulation.
BackUpMyMail has a free 7 day trial. Beyond 1 GB the cost is $19.95/year. Pro (2 GB) and Power (5 GB) versions are coming at $25.85/year and $34.70/year respectively.
BackUpMyBlog works with WP, Blogger and TypePad to save pictures, style, comments on a daily basis. Backing up costs $19.95/year for 1 GB storage. You can pull your own blog into your RSS feeder for free.
BackUpMyPics works with Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa and Smug Mug, checking photo accounts once/day for new pictures. The cost is $19.95/year for 1 GB and $2.95/year/GB thereafter.
So don’t worry. Take care of it and forget it. Preserve your social media efforts with a good secure backup system.
Tags: cloud storage, online backup, social media
