Dear Reader, if your hard drive died.. would you lose valuable tax records? Irreplaceable photographs? How about your address book? Or.. have you followed my advice, so oft repeated here, and made two separate backups and stored them in two different locations/media types? If you have, you just may have saved yourself some tears of sorrow and frustration. (And if you run a business, maybe your livelihood.)

A good backup will mean the difference between a couple hours’ of inconvenience –in case of a failure– and total loss. Just recently, I wrote an article on how having the second backup saved my bacon on an XP machine (see Back in the saddle) when its hard drive decided enough was enough.
I cannot say it often enough: computers are complex devices and their parts DO fail (and usually provide little or no warning before they do). Make some copies of your stuff.

This is a really good article about something that I don’t do as much as I should… So, do as I Say not as I DO… Because, your the one that will pay for the mistake, when it happens… I have started to use an external drive and also the Mozy online backup system… it just a habbit…3 weeks and it iwll be something that you always do!

Read the rest of this great article here and [Backup] all your system files…