In any job, if you really have a passion for it, there are times when the personal satisfaction from accomplishing some aspect of your work far outweighs the financial rewards. In the case of computer repair, for me, I get a real “high” when I can recover a customer’s data after his or her computer hard drive crashes and there was no backup.
Today, however, I had to tell another customer that there was nothing I could recover. They lost pictures of their family, children and others. They lost documents and Internet favorites. Some of these items can be found again but many pictures are lost forever. It’s sad that I wasn’t able to help them.
Still, what happened today is just another reminder of what I keep “preaching” about - ALL HARD DRIVES FAIL. Back ups are so very important. There are many ways to keep copies of your files, documents and pictures – external drives, CDs, DVDs, and USB drives. For my money, though, the best backup is encrypted, online backup like we use here at Keystone Computer Concepts. With online backup, new files are backed up within minutes of being created; you can access your backed up files from anywhere on the Internet; and, you can transfer your back up from one computer to another. (Example: you buy a new computer and give up the old one.)
If you’re not using online backup now, I strongly urge you to give it a try. It may very well be the best $55 investment you’ll make in the next year. Just click on the banner below and get started!