If you’ve heard it once you’ve heard it a million times - you need to back up the information on your computer. Hard drives *do* crash sometimes and it can be heartbreaking to lose all that information - documents, pictures, videos and so on. Even worse if you work online as I do.Then you’ve got the chances of fire, theft and so on.Sorry to sound negative but it is important - and I think too few people take this topic seriously.Once you’ve made the commitment to back up your files though, how do you actually go about it?Well here are 4 common methods for you to consider before making a decision:1) CDEasy and cheap, saving important files onto CD is a popular method. They’re small and reasonably hardwearing and can be stored in a locked box or safe in the home.It does mean however that you need to pick and choose *which* files you’re going to back up as taking a complete copy of a well-stuffed hard drive and trying to squeeze it onto CDs would require a heck of a lot of discs.In addition, appreciate that if it is fire, there is a risk the discs themselves could get […]

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