Although we all know we should, a lot of us just never seem to get round to it until one day we get a scare. Our computer gets infected with a rampant virus or our hard disk starts making strange noises. This is when you suddenly start wishing you’d done some backups.

It’s not difficult to do. The easiest option in to go look at some external hard drives and choose one that hold more data than your computer’s hard disk. Then plug it into your computer and run some backup software. It’s that simple. But it means you’ll never lose sleep over lost data.

Tags: Computing