Why are backups important?

Computers fill our life and our work.  They faithfully accumulate our wedding pictures, our company's books, music collection and the ceaseless emails we get and send.  But, unless you back it up, all that data can be gone like a flash of lightning.

Backups protect you from hardware failure

Computers are more reliable than ever, so it’s easy to forget or put off backing up your data. We've all done it.

But, computer drives still fail, and usually they give no advance warning.  One minute they're working fine, and the next minute they're toast. 

And usually, when they fail, it's impossible (or very expensive) to get any data off of them.

Backups protect you from viruses

Some computer viruses will corrupt your data.  Some computer viruses will bog your machine down so much that you can't login.

If you ever "lose" a computer to a virus, most technicians will advise you to wipe the drive clean and reinstall everything.

Backups can be a life-saver in these extreme cases.