Back Up Your PC - You’ll Thank Me Later
January 22, 2007
Picture this: you’ve just left for the Thanksgiving holidays and you no sooner get to your destination that you remember that you forgot to turn off the PCs at home. “No worries†you think, they’ll be fine. That same evening, your home town is hit by a huge lightning storm and the power is cut out instantaneously and takes your PC hostage. The lights in your house go down and your PC gives up – it’s fried. All data lost.
Important things on your PC:
- pictures from every Christmas and family vacation since 1998
- your entire business including financial statements… hey, we’re in the 2000s now, who needs paper records!
- log in information for every single web account you ever accessed – just think, all of your RoboForm forms are now erased… If you don’t know what RoboForms are, you HAVE to see my other blog entry on the subject because otherwise you are wasting precious time every single time you log into the internet… (This would seriously be enough to make me want to run screaming and crying towards the nearest psychiatric ward…)
- e-mail addresses and contact information for everyone that you’ve ever made contact with including all of those people you forgot about but just know you’ll need to reach them now
Now, unfortunately, all of that data is erased – never to be found again. Were you lucky enough to have backed up your data recently?
The answer to that question is more than likely going to be a big fat N-O. The majority of people do not back up their data on their PC. I don’t need to go into the many reasons why it is important (I think by listing the “important things†on your PC, I’ve already sent you into a mini panic attack…) so let’s get into the pith of why we are here… Let’s learn how to back up your PC.
For this particular instance, I’m not going to reinvent the wheel. There is a great article written by Gina Trapani, author of LifeHacker called “Geek to Live: Automatically Back Up Your Hard Drive.†I want each of you to click the link and read the full article and put it to good use today… You never know when a hard drive crash is looming around the corner (God forbid but it can happen!)
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