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Coffee in hand, you stagger into your office and sit down to read your morning emails and sort through them like you always do.  Pushing on the button that lights up the CPU on your system and it’s blank. No light, no fan, no nothing. You start to panic and go through the obvious problems.  You look at the clock and hope that its not moving cause that means your electricity is off. Darn, that’s not it.  You crawl under the desk with the dust bunnies and hope that just maybe you accidently discconnected the power source from the power strip. Nope…

After running down a full list of potential problems, you realise that now, it’s a lost cause and your repair guy is going to get your panicked call and he won’t be available for hours if not days.

Sound familiar!?

It’s happened to a few of us and we are no exception.  In that hardware failure, you also start to wonder if all that work that you had on your hard drive is still good and all those files will still be there when you need them most.

The only way to reassure that you can rest at ease is to be sure to back up your files on an external hard drive.  External hard drive prices are coming down in price extensively and they can hold thousands of file with some drives hold up to 400-500 Gigabytes in memory.

Backup software such as GoodSync, can be set to auto back up your files on a schedule that keep you as up to date in your files as you want to be making it very automatic.  There are other softwares out there that are just as good, just do your research to see how versatile they are.

Remember, there is a big difference between backing up system files and doing data backups. Be sure you do both otherwise you might find yourself without some information that you needed. Data backups are the most important as that holds the information for your letters, pictures and so much more.