Back Up To Your iPod

Rick Klau, who is lucky in love, which is good as he appears to be unlucky with his ThinkPads, suggests regular backups of document folders to your 60 G iPod. Well…that is possible, surely, and easy to do, but it seems like a waste of space, somehow, even if you aren’t using the space, otherwise. You can do the same thing with an external drive, through your USB 2 or Firewire port, and a cost of about $100 for oodles and oodles of drive capacity. (I hesitate to specify drive capacity. 80 Megabytes at that price was common last year. This year, you can double or perhaps triple that for more or less the same price.)

Of course, the external drive won’t play music and videos, and you can’t toss it in your pocket, but it does hold backup data pretty well. Then there’s eSilo, which I’m currently playing with, for encrypted, online backup. A little pricey for home use, but if you are protecting business data, something to consider.