<p>Should I bother purchasing the student backup plan?</p>
<p>Current students, is it necessary for me to spend extra money to back up my files??
Thanks.</p>
<p>I didn’t do it, but I have a laptop, desktop with multiple hard drives, and a very large flash drive, so most of my files are backed up somewhere already.</p>
<p>Also, I’m pretty sure it does, but just to make sure - the program they offer backs up your files somewhere off your own laptop’s hard drive, right? So basically it takes all the files and sends them to a remote location? I just don’t want them being backed up to my Hard drive.</p>
<p>I think so…</p>
<p>what exactly is the student backup plan?</p>
<p>could current students please indicate whether they have used/have been satisfied with the back-up plan (for computer files) offered through student services and, if not, what other method they would recommend?</p>
<p>I’m not a current student, but I think paying for the student back up plan is absurd.</p>
<p>Buy a large flash drive (they’re so cheap now!) or an external hard drive, and jst move all your files every month or so. If you’re typing a big paper, make sure you save it on both your internal hard drive (obviously) and your flash drive, and if you’re paranoid, your external hard drive too!</p>
<p>I agree with neethus1, as does my husband, who’s an IT director at a univ.</p>
<p>thank you so much for the replies—I will follow the advice</p>
<p>You should definitely buy a student backup plan, they cost like $50 bucks for the whole year and is something you can definitely get your parents to chip down for. Relying on USB and external drives is only good if you re-save everything on there evertime you work on something. Student backup plans backup your files every night automatically whether you remember to or not, some of them even come with free security tracking if your laptop get stolen. </p>
<p>Lose one term paper and then tell me $50 isn’t worth it for the year. There’s a bunch of them:</p>
<p>[Student</a> Backup | Computer backup software | College backup](<a href=“http://www.studentbackup.com%5DStudent”>http://www.studentbackup.com)
carbonit.com, etc.</p>
<p>Buying the student backup plan is like paying someone to hold your coat for a year. Buy a coat-hanger and do it yourself. I suspect cronan works for Student Services, that’s the only possible explanation for his enthusiasm about it. You can copy everything over to your external every night on your own. Hell, if you’ve got a Mac and have Time Machine, you don’t even have to worry about it.</p>
<p>Also, as far as losing term papers go, there’s no reason to ever lose a major assignment half-way through, even if you don’t have an external hard drive or a stupid back-up plan. Save it as an attachment and e-mail it to yourself, or save it into Google Docs, then you can access it and work on it from any computer. If Google’s servers go down forever, then you’re probably already dead from the radioactive fallout anyway.</p>