Backup

How To Backup Your Real Estate Files With Dropbox

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Dropbox is an online service that that, once installed, will automatically backup selected files and/or folders to the cloud. Dropbox gives users 2free GB worth of storage and you can upgrade to 50GB for $9.99 /month or 100GB for $19.99 /month. When installed, Dropbox creates a “Dropbox” folder on your computer. Any files that are [...]

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Box.net Now Offers 5 Free Gigs Of Cloud Storage

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Box.net now gives users 5 free gigs of storage, up from 1 GB.    This is enough space to store 328 appraisal files or 500 real estate photos.  This assumes that your appraisal files are around 3200 KB each and that your photos are 4 megapixels.  You would be able to store around 285 photos is [...]

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10 Free Websites to Backup Your Appraisal Files

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Real estate appraisers have to keep their work files for 5 years.  The picture above is of the boxes of appraisal files I have to keep.  I have not added anything to this stack for about 2 years and can not wait for the day when 100% of my appraisal files are electronic. My appraisal [...]

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