In a recent New York Times article Lisa Foderaro reported that a new species of leopard frog, whose entire known range is roughly within commuting distance of Midtown Manhattan. Some found this very surprising, considering the current challenges of commuting into New York City.

Over the last few months we've covered myriad ways to backup and protect the important data stored on your computer - from manual backup and automatic backup to continuous backup and cloud backup integration. Understanding the different methods of backup technology will enable users to make dramatically more well-informed decisions in the effort to protect data. Now it's time to share some of the most popular blogs over the last few months.

When it comes to backup applications, not all are created equal. File backup, the most popular, falls short of protecting applications and settings, as well as the operating system. Image backup applications, while comprehensive, require most of the computer resources during the backup and are typically run on a schedule outside normal working hours. Access to the individual files requires processing a large archive and takes time.

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The Golden Poison Frog can be found on the Pacific coast of Colombia, enjoying the tranquility of the rainforest with plentiful rain, high temperatures, and high relative humidity of 80–90%. In the wild, the Golden Poison Frog is a social animal. It lives in groups of up to six individuals, and can count on this community to help warn it of imminent threats.

The more choices we make, and the more things we have to remember, the more likely we are to make a mistake. The process of software installation is a good example. Software installations frequently present us with a multi-step wizard to aid in making choices easier. But if the choices presented are confusing or unfamiliar, the results may fall short of the intended result. Typically, choices about files types and folders, referred to as a backup set, are required to set up backup applications.

We've covered a number of important and interesting topics in the field of data backup & recovery over the last few months. From Outlook backup to redundancy to living virtually in 2012, check out a few of the most popular:

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As we've discussed in this blog, there are many kinds of backup, and each is susceptible to its own unique list of vulnerabilities. Local backup to disk failure, theft, and elemental damage, NAS backup to server failure, IT sabotage, or hacking, and cloud backup to any combination of these and other issues that might afflict the specific area where the data is stored, or the network it employs. This brings us to the addage "don't put all your eggs in one basket". When you diversify your backup solution, your greatly enhance the safety and recoverability of your data.