Don’t forget to back up your important information
No, I’m not talking about your work data nor your important documents. You know you should be backing that information up regularly, right? I’m talking about what Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central calls your “Digital Life”. Photos of family and friends, music files, home videos taken and stored digitally on your computer. These are the things that if lost are irreplaceable and you not only should back those up but make a physical backup and store them off site. Fires don’t discriminate, nor do thieves so once that precious personal data is lost it could be gone forever. Back it up to an external hard drive or the equivalent and store that copy in a safe deposit box at a bank. You hope you will never need it but if you do it could be a life saver. What would you do if all of your personal photos and videos suddenly disappeared?
I make a quarterly set of DvD’s from my backup box and sent them to my brother. Worse case I lose the last couple months of pictures, etc.
I guess I should open a secure tunnel to his home system and do nightly pushes, that might be a good idea.
The good news is that we are on opposite coasts so the data is pretty secure from a local disaster.
I’d just get in my time machine and go back and take the pictures again. In fact, now that I have a good digital camera I’ll do that now!
See you sooner!
Many people forget (or don’t know how) to back up their Web bookmarks and their address book.
Bookmarks/favorites can be exported to a file or saved by various utility programs. You can find the location of your windows address book by searching for *.wab files.