As many of you may know I have become quite obsessed with backing up my digital data. I won’t go into my complete strategy right know, but I will give you the opportunity to backup much of your data (to the cloud) for free.

I first learned about Backupify on net@night (episode 135). At the time, they were offering 2GB of backup for free. That’s not unusual for online backup — in fact, it’s quite the norm.

The giddy thing about Backupify is that it backs up your online digital data — GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, WordPress (your complete database), Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Basecamp, Hotmail, Delicious, Flickr, Photobucket, and way more.

If you think about it, most of these services are very valuable to you, and I bet you don’t have a backup of the majority of them. Even if you do, it’s best practice to have multiple backups of all important data.

Once you’ve linked each of your online accounts with Backupify, then it’s completely automated; Backupify does regular backups of all the services you link. Don’t worry, Backupify is completely secure (none of your backups are visible to anyone but you).

What happens if Google’s servers were destroyed by an act of nature (flood, etc)? I know that’s completely unlikely, but what if… You can never be sure of how long certain online services will be around, and if they only hold a single copy of your data, then you could be completely out of luck.

Are you following me here? Good. Because I have a bloody rad deal for FIVE people.

If you leave a comment on this post or @reply me on Twitter, then I’ll send you an invite to Backupify Plus.

This is completely free. There’s no money involved. Backupify is just giving away these free upgraded accounts so that people try out the service.

Your Plus (10GB) account will be active for 1 year. After that you will be downgraded to the free 2GB account. Unless, of course, you love how rad the service is and you pay to upgrade in a year.

Yes, I also get an upgrade on my Backupify account too, so everyone wins!

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