See how many data loss scenarios listed below you are personally familiar with:
- Power Surge fried my PC.
- My Hard drive with three years worth of family photos is going tic, tic, tic. (fried in other words).
- An attempt on my part to "fix" a slow PC has caused a major system failure and all my data is on the system drive.
- My 3 year-old realized he can make things disappear by pressing a button on the keyboard.
- Fire swept through my friend's apartment and burned everything, including his data to a crisp.
- Believing the webcam was active, burglars dunked my neighbor's PC in a bathtub filled to the brim. (bzzzzzzzt)
- I backed up my data on a CD but it got scratched and is unreadable.
What no backup? The word backup alone can raise procrastination from the dead. However the undeniable truth is that, the more our life revolves around the use of computerized machines, the more our well-being and sanity depend on regular data backups. All of these machines have an expected lifespan and there is no reason for us to suffer when they kick the bucket. The idea to write these words came to me after I saw an ad for a 1TB (1000 Gigabytes!) external Hard drive that was selling for about $100. It's Obvious that good & simple solutions can be found for those heart breaking, data-loss blues . How much would you pay to get back three years of your family 's photos? Probably more than $100 right?A thorough article on how to backup your data properly can be found here.
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