If you're not backing up your most important data, you're inviting trouble into your life.
We've all been there -- those moments when something goes awry with a computer and you have to sweat through the process of hoping you can get that machine running long enough to copy those crucial files and folders to an external drive, and salvage them before something goes catastrophically wrong. Or maybe you accidentally deleted a folder and have already emptied your trash?
Also: How to set up your own NAS for more reliable data backups
Whatever the future holds, it's time you start depending on a solid backup strategy -- or that you at least start using a backup tool to keep your most important files safe from disaster.
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