Don't lose your Family Photos

Digital cameras make it easy to take lots of photos, but you can easily find yourself without any of them if your computer crashes.All the memories preserved in your family photos now forever lost.

Most people who do backup their photos do it to CD's or DVD's.  But this is a feel good measure that does little good.  CD's and DVD's can start showing errors within three years even when stored in the best of conditions.Only perfect conditions will prevent these errors from happening faster.

And sharing your family photos between your computer, your mates, your kids, is just burdensome.Most just email pictures around the same household or using a free service that imposes restrictions on you.  But there is a much better way that is both inexpensive and easy to use, Internet Attached Storage.

Internet Attached Storage is the combination of Online Backup, local network disk, and file sharing (like OPENRSM CloudBackup).You don't have to give away information and you get to backup all your other key data (like email, documents, spreadsheets) as well.

Here's how it works.  You create an with an Internet Attached Storage provider.You then set up the provided software on every computer with the network drive option selected.Each computer then automatically backs up to a seperate area and will also show the shared folder as a local volume.Here is the very best thing of all.A shared folder can be created.This makes the folder appear local on every computer you and your family uses.

No more emailing photos, no more using services that make you give up your privacy.  And all the computers have backup for your other important files (like banking, documents, email) as well as having all those photos available from every computer.This saves loads of space and if bad things happen (like accidental deletion, hard disk failure, etc.) a previous version is in your Internet Attached Storage area.So if you don't discover a damaged photo immediatly you still have the original available.

The important things to remember are.Relying on CDs is a risk you shouldn't take if your photos are important to you. They scratch easily. Also, recorded CDs can degrade quickly (some in just a couple years).Most online photo sites seem free, but between the emails, popup ads, and restrictive rules your really paying for it.Internet Attached Storage keeps a backup of your images in the security of a remote place away from danger.  Keeping photos organized makes everything easier because Internet Attached Storage mirrors the structure of your own disk. Ensure you automatically backup new photos, you don't want to lose pictures because you forgot that one time.Make it automatic so remembering to do it is one less task to do.

Not every online backup or Internet Attached Storage provider have advanced synchronization, automation, or network drive and folder sharing features.We've looked at many of these services and think you should use OPENRSM CloudBackup.  It has the automation, ease of use, advanced file sharing features, and low cost you need to make sure that the pictures of your family don't disappear from your computer.