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OK, in a way we all have a "computer career" to take care of our home systems. It's a new month! Back up your important files! I think every single person I know has had some sort of a catastrophic data loss at least once in their life. Usually it's because they put off doing backups until "later".

If you do it on the first of each month, it is quick, easy, and it gets done. So do it today!

Great post, Lisa!

So great, it inspired an entire article...

If you work with computers, click on this link to learn how Computer Backups Can Save Your Life!

Beside your local backup to an external/network hard drive or a CD/DVD, you can also do remoate backup to online sites such as www.carbonite.com or www.mozy.com. I am using mozy.com to backup my files for free, which allows free online backup for the 1st 2 GB.

I tried online backup. Too slow. I used USB HD for important stuff.

One on every CPU (3 Computers). Backup of all Mp3's and important stuff. Plus I sent USB HD to Sister and Sister In Law (Local SisinLaw). Swap em out few times a year for updates.

I would hate to lose my Mp3's. 125g of Music.

Photo's I backup on External HD and Wife's System and her External HD also.

DM

Hi Lisa Shea

Thank you for telling us about backup. Here i want to tell you all how to backup your system.
Actually backup system utility help us to make another copy of the all our system's information to our hard drive. If the data is deleted accidentally we can restore it again.

Step1: Open Program.. Accessories
Step2. Click on System Tools
Step3: Open Backup Utility
Step4: Always start in wizard mode
Step5. Backup or restore option
Step6. Click next and choose the item you want backup
Step7. Click next and choose the choose the location where to save the backup files,Write the name of backup files, normally put the name of current date.
Step8. Click next and it will take the backup.

I hope this information will be helpful to the new computer users.

Charles, just want to welcome you to the forum, hope that you enjoy your stay!
Rosie

Thank you Rosie.

Charles

I've learned my lesson on backing up my computer. My laptop crashed on New Years Day this year with about 4 years of photos on it. I think it had been backed up about 6 months before the crash but I had several hundred photos on it from a trip we took to Washington Dc and Williamsburg.

Best Buy said it was beyond hope but my husband bought a $99 hard driver recovery gadget online and got my hard drive back for me. However, now I do back up about once a month - and I send most my my photos to an online account at Costco.