Have you backed up your work recently?

You will never understand the importance of a backup of your digital work until your hard drive fails and there isn't one to fall back on.

It does not matter whether your computer is one day old or ten years old, the hard drive containing all your precious digital work can fail at any time.
Sure, sometimes there are tell-tale signs of its imminent "death", but then again there are times when that hard drive will just "die" without giving any warning - these are the times you should be prepared for.  This brings me to the "question of the hour" - if your hard drive fails right now just how much "stuff" would you lose?

Here are a few key things to consider:

1. Do not backup your data on the same hard drive as the original copy - now this might have you saying "duh", but truth be told, there are many persons who do just that.  Few persons seem to understand that a partitioned-drive is a single drive and if that hard drive fails you will be losing all the partitions containing all your data.
2. Your backup should be as up-to-date as possible - if you would not like to lose what you just stored then you should update your backup immediately.
3. It is always smart to not have the backup in the same physical location as the original - if the backup and the original are in your carrying bag for instance, and the bag was stolen your backup would not make any sense since it too will be gone.

It does not matter whether you decide to use a flash-drive, DVDs, a cloud service or an external hard drive to backup your important information, what really matters is you having a backup to fall back on when you need it.  Now go backup your data/information.

PLEASE TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT BACKING UP THEIR DATA TODAY!!