Bang! My files were gone. Where's my backup?

If this hasn't happened to you yet. You should prepare yourself. Barring Microsoft comes out with a bullet proof operating system, it will happen. Your right, why be so bleak? Well, It happened to me. I was of the same belief many of you have. Hard drive crashes only happen to those people who don't know what they are doing. I know what I am doing. In the back of my mind was the thought. I should back up my hard drive. The excuse for me not to do it was usually something about, "it will take too much time to back up the hard drive."

Well it happened. The hard drive took a dive. One hour my hard drive decided to give up. It was time to go into early Hard Drive Retirement. This hard drive had been storing my information faithfully like an old dependable friend for over 5 years. No worriers, ever. I hit the save button and bang my information was saved on my Western Digital HD. Sure I have a zip drive and you know what? It's easy to use. I also have other resources I could have used.

After being brought home from a doctors visit to bandage up the wound I create after banging my head against the wall for not backing up my hard drive. The magnitude of my loss was really sitting in. Five years of family research, digitized photos, documents converted to pdfs to move myself into the paperless world, close to a thousand programs written, email address, emails, my outlook information, etc, etc. all gone because I didn't want to take the time to back up my hard drive.

I have been working in the information technology field since the time of the punch cards. Backup has always been a rule of thumb in the work place. Why shouldn't it be that way at home? Actually, my home office is my work place now. I have a zip drive, external hard drives, and even a tape backup drive.

Since my big backup snaffoo, I have created several backups of information that is important to me. There are also a few tools I know have that I didn't have before.

For my website backups, I use Database Backup Generator
- Back up any or all of you mySQL databases.
- Automatically backups: Daily, Weekly, Monthly
- Basically Set it and forget it.
- It's a smart thing to do.

I recently found a great Free Remote backup solutions at Mozy
- Backup important PC files off site
- Fee: no setup fees, no monthly payments
- Automatic: get started in seconds
- Secure: The data is always private and encrypted.
- Currently you receive 2 GB for no cost at all.

Backing up your data should be something that you care about. I wish I had paid attention to my mind nagging me to back up. Now that hard drive is resting someplace without any life and it may still hold that million dollar idea I was working on.

Dave Hansen will be posting more and more information at his new site Click-Reviews.com.

Backing up your hard drive is only for those who are careless. That is what I thought, until my Hard Drive went the way of the Dinosaur.

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