Information Addicts

When did you last back up your important data, last week, last month, last year, or you will, when you get the time?

The other day I tried to access the photos on my pc (over 3,000 pictures stored in this folder) and suddenly the hard drive crashed. Ok I thought reboot and all will be back to normal, not so, cutting a long story short my hard drive had developed a fault and was trashed. Although I do back up all files and folders etc on a regular basis onto DVD, unfortunately the one folder that had not been backed up for nearly 6 months was the one with all my photos of 2007. A lot of the pictures in that folder were of my 5 year old daughter, which I can never replace. Ok so this is my fault and a lesson is learned.

What I am trying to get across to you is, backup all your important data on a regular basis or else if you don’t you could lose it forever.

I wrote the above article way back in May 2007, but I have decided to update it as I have been using a program called Acronis True Image Home to back up all my data, and I highly recommend it.
Although there are free backup programs out there, non of them can match Acronis for its many features and sheer ease of use.
Below are just a few of its features:

• Backup your documents, music, video, photos, and e-mails
• Protect your applications - Use Acronis® True Image to restore all the settings for Microsoft Office, iTunes, Media Player and dozens of other most popular applications!
• Try&Decide - Test new software or browse the web in a protected, safe environment. At the end of the session, you decide whether to keep or discard the changes made to your system.

• Security and privacy tools - Use Acronis® Drive Cleanser, File Shredder and System Clean-up utilities to protect your privacy by safely destroying sensitive data, cleaning up your system, or securely wiping the entire hard drive.

• Boot-time Restore - Start, working in seconds while your system is still being restored in the background.

• Secure Zone - Protect your system by saving an image to a special hidden partition on your hard disk. It is especially useful for notebooks, and tablet PCs.

Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed. The latest version of Acronis True Image Home is V11 and can be purchased form Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

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