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As we rely more and more on computers and the working on the internet to do things that we used to earlier do in person or by hand, we underestimate the importance of keeping backups and physical copies of important documents. I learned the hard way, when my computer crashed last year and I lost about a month’s worth of work, and since I work from home it was not saved on the company’s backup system, and it was a lot of work gone down the drain. Since then I try to make sure I back up my work in a couple of different formats, online backups, pen drives and CD’s depending on what kind of work it is.

Besides losing my professional stuff, I also lost lots of personal photographs and audio files, which really was quite upsetting. Never again, I said, since this is a totally avoidable situation. Now I backup the bulk of my work on an online back up system and store some stuff on my pen drive as well. The Vegas Files offers online back up protection, with plans starting at just $25 a month. Check out some of the available sites online whee you can back up everything from documents, spreadsheets, photos, music and more and you’ll see just how simple it is to take care of this most important of tasks.