Five Steps To Back Up Your Digital Life (NAPSA)—More and more, our lives have gone digital. We’re quickly filling up our hard drives with digital photos, music, videos and documents, and in doing so we're flirting with digital disaster. Think about it: What would happen if you lost all that data on your hard drive? In a millisecond your family photos, home movies, years of work, and digital music collection could vanish forever. It could cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars to have a datarecovery service attempt to get the lost data back, but there’s no guarantee they'd be successful. @ Modern technology can help you This is a disaster that doesn’t be sure your digital family memories are safe. nal storage and backup solutions, started on a backup program is have to happen. With today’s advances in exterbacking up your digital assets can be done easily and automatically. With an external hard drive such as the Maxtor OneTouch™ solution, you won't be forced to rummage through a pile of CDs/DVDsif you need to restore something. It’s all stored in one location. Just supply power to the drive, plug it into a PC or Mac via a USBor FireWire port, pop in the included disk, and follow the simple setup wizard. In The good news is that getting simple. Here’s a five-step program from www.backupawareness.com for basic protection: Develop a backup schedule— back up data daily or, at a minimum, weekly. Back up everything—no need to sort through every file and folder. Invest in a storage solution that’s twice the size of your inter- just a few minutes, you'll be able to nal hard drive to give your system room to grow. Do it automatically—set it hard drive every night. If new data can’t wait, press the glowing button to start an immediate backup. easy to set up and provides automatic backups. Rotate backups—for added small business network, look for a shared storage device, such as the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus solution that plugs into a wired or wire- ural disaster, use two drives and automatically back up your entire If you're connected to a homeor less router and can automatically back up everyone’s computer data on the local network to one location. andforget it. Use a solution that’s protection in case of theft or natrotate one off-site. Don’t procrastinate. Unfortunately, the need to back up data is often a lesson learned from a bitter experience. Don’t let it happen to you.
