Backupify – Secure Your Online Life

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on January 25th, 2010
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I use many online services and I’m sure you do too. If you don’t think you do you probably at least have a Facebook account. So you put tons of photos on there, write long notes, get tagged in photos etc. What if for some reason Facebook crashed and you lost all of those images and other important things on Facebook? This is very unlikely to happen, but it is always good to have a backup of everything. This is where Backupify comes in. It’s a service that backs up many cloud services and for a limited time (till Jan 31st) the service is free.

The Services
So do you use a service that Backupify supports? They have all the big online services covered, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Gmail, Google Docs, Flickr, and Wordpress. Other services include Delicious, Zoho, Photobucket, Basecamp, Blogger and Hotmail. They also have support for YouTube, Xmarks, Rss Feeds, and Tumblr coming very soon.

How It Works
Getting Backupify setup is pretty simple. All you do is create an account and go to the settings tab. There it will list all of the services. Then you go ahead and click on what service you want to back up, enter your credentials and hit create. You can also select how often Backupify backs up your data. You can select weekly or daily backups and you can have them e-mail you a digest of what gets backed up.

So when Backupify starts backing up your files you can go in and see what all has been backed up. Just click on the Archives tab at the top then select your service. Depending on the service the files will be backed up differently. They make a nice PDF for Twitter updates. Other things are stored in .xml files or things like photos are simply backed up.

Sign up Fast
As I said Backupify is currently free, after January 31st the service will go back to a paid pricing structure. If you signup during this free period your account will remain free and unlimited. Even if they do not support your service you should sign up. They are planning on adding many services in the future and you can’t beat it since it’s free!

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Colin Dean said on January 25th, 2010 at 3:16 pm

I signed up for it and got the GF to do it, too, even though she doesn’t use much other than Facebook. It’s a frightfully valuable tool!
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The Digital Life & Tools Blog said on January 30th, 2010 at 11:44 am

I just noticed this article my RSS reader, and, by coincidence, this is the last to sign up!

Thanks for pointing this out.

It’s true: there have been a lot of server failures at Internet companies, even at Google. So you should definitely have some kind of alternative backup arrangement.
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Scrap Gold said on February 1st, 2010 at 7:12 am

I didn’t know this service.I will try to use for facebook.thanks…
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Ruben@AutoShipping said on February 2nd, 2010 at 4:54 am

I just signed up good thing , theyre stopping the free signups on Feb 15 , thanks

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flights to pakistan said on February 8th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

hmm thats very interesting, turns out to be a very helpful post, i didnt know you can secure and back up your work online, will do it for some social bookmark website. thanks!

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Mining Distributors said on February 21st, 2010 at 8:05 pm

I currently use this tool, and it is valuable!

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