Backup, backup, backup...
I have an Apple Mac which makes backups a lot easier. For the last few years the Mac OS has had an Application called Time Machine. All you do is plug an external Hard Drive in and say yes when the computer asks if you want to make it your Time Machine backup. From then on your machine is backed up incrementally every hour the machine is turned on without you doing anything or noticing anything :thumbsup
Not only is it a full backup system that can rebuild your entire computer's Hard Drive to within the last hour it failed, it can also go back in time, depending on the size of your backup drive, to recover previously trashed files or files you may have corrupted recently. Definitely the ducks nuts, it just works and has saved many of my IT customers from disaster.
However even with this backup solution I have another backup of my entire computer on another Hard Drive which I keep in my car. That way if my house burns or my computer and backup Drive are stolen, (happened to one of my customers), I still have most of my data.
Many people have all of their business data, accounts, photos and more on their computer, imagine if it was all gone in a second... That's all it takes for a Hard Drive to fail. Backups are the cheapest insurance you'll ever get. I have witnessed the utter misery of some of my IT clients when they lost their accounts, booking data, client records, family photos and more in a Hard Drive failure, I don't want to experience that and nor should you. Hard Drives are mechanical devices, they wear out. It's not a matter of if but when!
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AusDave