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Archive for January 30th, 2012

Viruses, bugs, hard drive failures and coffee spills – there are plenty of ways you can lose the data on your computer forever. The modern computer can store thousands of cherished family photos and videos, your prized music collection, all of your accounts, important letters and much more. And these can be lost in an instant with a misplaced beverage, or a faulty hard drive.

Backing up your data is nothing new. In the past the only way was to back up your data to an external device – a hard drive, CDs, DVD’s or a thumb drive being the popular choices. The problem was that it was always an effort to do the backup. You would have to swap disks, wait for copies to be made and generally do boring things with your computer when you would rather be playing games or surfing the internet. That’s why even the most conscientious computer user would never backup their data as well as they would like.