Digital Home Thoughts: The Way To Safe Computing Is Backup, Backup, Backup

"There is one unalienable truth about backing up your items, whether it's a digital photo collection, albums, videos or business documents: if it's not backed up, it can't be replaced if it goes missing. To that extent, vendors like Western Digital, Seagate, Norton and Carbonite and many more have stepped up to the plate, but which entry protects information best?"

At some point or another, most of us have suffered a catastrophic failure with a computer. Depending on what happened, your pictures, music and movies could be lost forever. So, having learned your lesson, you started a strict backup regimen. You feel safe and secure. But fear drives us all, and maybe you wonder just how good is your backup? Are your files really safely tucked away? Will you be able to access them in your time of need?

MaximumPC puts forth a good article on various backup methods. To that, I can only suggest that when you do your backups (we all do these days, right?) that you test it once in a while to make sure that your data is still there, and make sure that you also keep an offsite backup if possible. Computer failures are not the only way to lose your data. A robbery, fire or flood can easily part you and your data. And of course, always consider backing up your cloud data. One never knows when a company might go under, or decide to delete your account.