Back Your Stuff Up
If you’re a computer user let me recommend that you back up your important data. Its a surefire way to save money. If data comes from time put into creating it then you’d be wise to back up that data regularly - because time is money. I just picked up a 320 Gigabyte hard drive from the store tonight (a Seagate external ‘FreeAgent’ drive) for around $100.00. It will back up all of the data on two of my computers. If you’re feeling particularly aggressive [and spendy] you could go with the excellent drobo system. Figure out how much data you have (by summing the size of harddrives you have), you can either buy one drive that is big enough to copy all of the data you have, or figure out how much ‘critical’ data you have. If you’ve purchased music from iTunes or purchased software online you’ll most definitely want to back that data up as some companies’ policies may not give you your data a second time.
Data backup can be configured through utilities that are freely downloaded from sites across the internet, but I recommend going to a reputable site such as downloads.com or tucows.com. Back your stuff up so that you can get it later if a computer fails or a drive goes out on you. For extra critical data you might back it up onto a DVD or CD and take a copy of that information over to another house where you trust the people there or better yet put it into a safe deposit box. That data could help you in the case of a fire or in the case of a law suit.
As a software developer I am constantly creating data - but my clients need to preserve that data. I’d recommend you take your data seriously because you never know when you might want something that you deleted a day ago that you backed up a week ago - you’ve still got it!
Data recovery services exist to make money recovering data on drives that may be damaged or mostly destroyed. Don’t get into a situation where your data needs to be recovered - backup drives are cheaper than these services hands down!
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