Backup Your Critical Data in 5 Minutes

At least once a year, I take a call from a friend or family member who is despondent because they’ve lost pictures or video or other critical data stored on their computer. Sometimes they accidentally delete a file or a directly. Or worse, a hard drive dies, taking all their data to the grave.

I listen and try to have empathy. I really do, yet I can usually predict the answer to the question I’ll ask next: “Did you have a backup of your files?” It’s probably a good thing they are explaining their situation to me over the phone when they tell me, no, they did not have a backup.