You’ve always stored important documents on your home computers, but each year it seems they get more critical.
Now sitting on that C: drive are not only financial records and correspondence, but also home movies and thousands of pictures and music files. Toast your hard drive and you’re in for a world of hurt – and little pity if you don’t have an external hard drive with a fresh set of backups.
The New York Times today looks at how you can choose a back-up system if you don’t already have one in place.
NW home networking guru Keith Shaw recently wrote a similar column, and our Network Life site just ran the detailed Home Storage Strategy Guide on how you can set up a bulletproof system for preserving your important data. If you read anything, do yourself a favor and read Backup 101.
