You need to backup your stuff. Not because your computer might get stolen or your house might burn down. But because your hard drive WILL fail within a couple of years. Someone in your house WILL, somehow, put a virus on your machine. You WILL accidentally-but-permanently delete your work in progress.
I am the most tech savvy, obsessively careful person I know, yet all three of these things have happened to me. They'll get you too.
I'm also supremely lazy. So if my backup plan requires any...
Published on November 30, 2012 03:47