Back it up

Back it up! Today, consider this a friendly warning, but you really should back up your hard drive and your work. Sure, we all think hard drives will last forever. Everyone who hasn’t had one crash thinks just that. But it’s coming. And the drive will be inexpensive to replace.

Your precious photos will not.

So, add some diligence to your creativity and all some sort of automatic backup routine to your life. You’ll be glad you did.

Here are a few places to get started.

- Browse newegg.com and find a decent external hard drive (you can frequently find a 500GB+ drive for around $50 these days).
- Add a second hard drive to your desktop and install File Synchronization. Best $15 you’ll ever spend.
- For those on a Mac, Time Machine will do in a pinch
- Consider a subscription to mozy.com or google storage
- Windows or Mac users, consider using Windows Live Mesh to sync common folders on two different machines. I use this from my Mac desktop to my Mac laptop to create some redundancy
- share other options in the comments. I’m sure you have a preferred backup method. The important thing is to do it.