This is a guest post by Gavin CROSS. I would like to start by thanking Gavin for the great contribution.

As we move further into the digital age, the preferred medium for storing data is becoming online services. Rather than a physical hard drive kept in your home or office backing up the hard drives you are using for the actual computers you work on, more and more storage is being done through online backup services. There are those who say the future is in the Cloud, but for now at least, we’re still relying on someone else’s physical hard drives kept offsite. Here are a few of the online backup services available:

1. Google Drive

In order to use Google Drive, you have to install it on every computer or device you wish to access your files from.…