Carbonite Online Backup

**This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carbonite for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.**

A few months ago, my computer crashed, and I lost EVERYTHING. Most importantly, I lost all my photos, and my entire dissertation. I was totally crushed that all my photos of my kids were gone. Sure, I still had some that I had posted online, but thousands and thousands of moments that I had captured on film were just GONE, in a second.

And then there was my dissertation. They won't give you the Ph.D. (which I've been working on for ALMOST SEVEN YEARS) without writing and defending a dissertation. My entire body of research was gone.

I'm a smart, tech-savvy lady. Of course I had all my stuff backed up, right?

Wrong. I wasn't backing up. I knew I should be using a computer backup service, but I wasn't.

There were tears. Lots of tears. And I ended up paying nearly $500 to a document recovery service to get the lost data back, and still didn't get 100% of my stuff back.

It was one of the most stressful things I've dealt with. You don't realize how much of your life is contained in your computer until it's gone. I could have saved myself a TON of time, heartache, stress and tears by using Carbonite to back up my photos and documents.

Carbonite takes the worry out of backup by securely and automatically backing up your files to one of their highly secure, state-of-the-art data centers. Carbonite works continuously in the background, automatically backing up your files any time you are connected to the internet. The service is completely automatic, and you can access your files from any internet-enabled device. They even have a free mobile app so that you can access and share your files from your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, or Blackberry Smartphone. 

Carbonite has safely recovered over 7 BILLION files that otherwise might have been lost. 7 BILLION.  That is a LOT of files.

Don't be me. Plan ahead, and check out Carbonite online backup service.

You can get unlimited backup for your PC or Mac, with anytime-anywhere access for only $59 per year. You can try it free for 15 days, and if you decide to buy, enter the code BLOGAD to get 2 months free with your purchase.