Plaxo No Longer Charges For Backup and Recovery

Yesterday, Plaxo, the on-line address book that helped jump start an industry, announced that they will be making their Backup and Recovery Service free to all users.  Previously, this feature was only available to Premium users.  However, we here at "Staying in Sync" always recommend having redundancy after redundancy, just in case.

Here is a copy of their blog post:

Address Book Backup and Recovery is now FREE for all Plaxo Customers

The backup and recovery feature is now being offered for FREE.

More good news for our Plaxo customers! The backup and recovery feature is now being offered for FREE.

Hey, it’s just a fact of life—people lose their cell phones, and usually that means they lose their address book and all of the contact information, too. Is there anything more frustrating and counter-productive than having to recreate your lost contact list? Now, with Plaxo’s FREE backup and recover feature, you’ll have peace of mind knowing that your contact list is backed up and easily recoverable, even if you lose your cell phone…or drop it in the toilet.

Plaxo automatically takes a snapshot of your address book anytime you make significant changes or additions to your account. To access this address book recovery feature, log into your Plaxo account. On the top navigation bar, click on, “Sync & Backup.” Then, scroll down to the bottom of the page in the section titled, “Backup & Recovery” and click “Recover your contacts.” You will have the option to roll back and recover to a specific point in time and there will be a list of available dates for your backup. Select a date and breathe a sigh of relief!

Hope you never have to use the recovery feature, but it’s nice to know you’re address book is backed up, just in case. If Plaxo Backup and Recovery does help you out of a bind, we would love to hear about it!