Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Magic Of Archiving Files

By Alix Montoya

We all have data storage nightmare stories to tell. Oftentimes, it's students who get to be a victim because of the many files that they need to keep in handy for their school work. Sometimes businessmen encounter these problems too and find themselves scrambling for compression methods that temporarily increase their disk space. Whoever you are, you are not immune to files getting bigger and bigger and space getting smaller and smaller.

Websites that offer online storage is definitely heaven sent for purposes such as these. One of the many things they offer is flexibility. They give you the option of accessing your files wherever you are, whenever you want. This is extremely important for businessmen who often find themselves working inside a plane on their way to meet with clients half way around the world.

Online storage systems also allow you to have additional storage space from the usual limits of your physical hard drive. Not only does it allow you to be incredibly flexible, it also allows for more data to be stored. Think about all the important documents that you need to keep a copy of. Wouldn't it be very helpful to be able to store all of them?

There's only one drawback of using data transfer systems such as online storage sites. Files can usually handle only a certain amount of uploads and downloads before they get corrupted. A file type is not necessarily the most secure when it comes to transfers over the internet and this could spell disaster for you and for you documents.

One way to prevent this from happening is that you archive your files before you trasnfer them. Archiving your files, such as putting them RAR form is an excellent way to fully prevent data loss. Putting them in RAR form is actually the safest way to make them available for countless uploads and downloads, by coutless people which you might want to give access to.

There are now a lot of services online that also offer this kind of service for free. They give you the option to zip or unzip your files from any compression or archiving software there is. The internet has many threats when it comes with file transfers and data corruption, however it also gives a lot of solutions as well.

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