Can you afford losing all your home financial spreadsheets or school assignment document on your computer?

What could happen if you lose all your account receivable information?

What could be the impact if you have power breakout in your office, so you can not take orders from your customer? 

While we rely more on more on computers for our everyday life and business, data safety becomes a critical part of our daily computing.  Any machine can break down, which certainly include your computer and data storage.  Data backup, recovery, and disaster recovery are all parts of your computer system risk management practice. 

As a daily practice, it is important to backup your data to somewhere else other than your primary data storage.  There are many different ways to achieve this with different budgets for different degrees of recoverability.  Simple and low cost ways such as using your portable USB flash drive, hard drive or even on a different computer can be helpful more or less.

For more critical and dynamic data, there are a lot more to be considered and arranged.  But solutions don't have to be expensive. There are a lot of very affordable but effective solutions out there.  It is definitely worth while for you to spend some time and think about how to prevent data loss and arrange quicker recovery.

The most important thing is: Start Backing Up Your Data Now!