Journalspace.com has completely failed and won’t be coming back. Their site has a post telling how a bug of some kind or malicious activity overwrote their entire database. It doesn’t matter how they lost the data, what matters is that they thought RAID was as good as having backup and are now out of business for their failure to backup.

And their users are the ones who have lost all their hard work. They trusted that Journalspace would be there and now they’re not. How many Journalspace users had their own backup? How many have data backups that will let them recover? Thousands of journals were all lost from the lack of a good backup. How do you preserve your photos, files, and blogs from this kind of failure? Do you have a quality backup? Are your blogs at risk? You know it is. Journalspace wasn’t a little fly-by-night provide and they failed. You need to be sure that if bad things happen your online presence can recover.

It’s as simple as this. Get your files backed up. Save your blogfiles on a backup. Backup your websites. Back up your PC’s. Just take the time to do it right and right now. And don’t trust CD’s, Tape, USB, or removable drives. They all use media and media isn’t permenant enough. You need to select an internet backup service that specializes in archiving data. The key features you should require is the ability to do incremental backups (to hold down cost). That it be an Internet backup so your data is offsite. That a network drive on your system is in reality your online backup volume. And that you can backup all the data from your computers, servers, blogs and websites, etc. with a single user account.

Compare online backup services and do it now. Find the services with these features and get backed up now. Get it done. don’t be like those that can’t recover because their provider lost their data. Be responsible and make certain your data is safe unlike the Journalspace users who didn’t back up their data.