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Today's home computer has quickly become a center piece of modern daily life. Many of us use them every day, and depend on them for quite a bit. We use them for entertainment, for information, and to help us live our lives. It makes sense, then, that backing up this important data on our computers is becoming more and more necessary. Here I'll discuss the importance of routine computer backups, and give you a couple of popular methods that people use to do this. Just think, now, what would happen if you computer were suddenly wiped clean. What would you do? Is there anywhere else where you have all that important data? What about all those pictures? Many people take hundreds or thousands of pictures every year, and store them directly onto their hard drive. If they were all lost, that would be terrible. The same goes for music files and video files as well. And I don't have to tell you the horrors that would transpire if you lost important financial information. Whatever you have on your own personal hard drive, it's important, and you should back it up. Naturally, many people believe that there's not really any significant chance of their computer failing, or their hard drive crashing. However, if you take a stroll down to your local computer shop, you'll find plenty of different software packages designed specifically to handle such an event. That these are some of the best selling software packages today is testament to the need for protection. Even if you have never experienced hard drive failure, that doesn't mean it couldn't happen at any minute. Your hard drive may even crash before you finish reading this article. So now, hopefully, you're convinced to start backing up your computer on a regular basis. The question you may have how is exactly how do you do this? Well, the easiest, and by far the most popular method is to purchase an external hard drive. These are about the size or your cell phone, and can connect to your computer through your USB port. They are pretty quick, and can back up your entire system in a couple of hours. They are affordable, and once set up, can easily back up your system once a week, once a month, or any other interval that you choose. One more thing that you can consider is to sign up with one of the many online backup services available. The benefit of these is that you have a few more options while backing up, and the data can be backed up without taking up too much system resources. The drawbacks are obvious. You'll need to pay a monthly or yearly fee, and you will need to have access to a high speed Internet connection if you ever need to access your data. This can prove to be troublesome if you happen to need your data in a pinch when the Internet is not available. As you consider this information, I hope you realize of consistent backups to your computer. You know how important it is, you know the horrors of what can happen if you don't, and disaster strikes. And most importantly, you exactly how to do it. All you need to do now is make a decision.
