Backing Up Data

Having an effective backup plan is your protection against the loss of any data in case a service provider fails to protect your data on its application. Popular applications being offered by cloud based service providers like Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, Microsoft Office Live, etc., are being used increasingly in our daily computing and the importance of having a backup plan is becoming all the more necessary.

Local backup of emails

E-Mail BackupIt is easy to create a local backup of emails by using a POP3/IMAP email client like Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail or Apple's Mail app. The users can as well fire up their desktop program on occasion, and can store a majority of their emails offline as well.

Microsoft's 'Windows Live Writer' saves all the posts written using the program in a file called 'My Weblogs Posts' in your Documents folder. The previously posts can as well be downloaded to this file by using its export feature.