It’s World Backup Day. Not that YOU care.

by. Ron Daly

Ah, that wonderful spring air. The trees are in bud, the flowers are in bloom, the weather…well, the weather hasn’t made up its mind just yet. All the calendars say it’s the most wondrous day of the year…yeah, you guessed it, it’s World Backup Day!

But let me guess…you don’t care.

I know your take on it. “World Backup Day? Is that the day we celebrate all the great backup singers in history?” No, not at all. World Backup Day is the day we all back up our computers. Many of us only do that once a year, regrettably, but better once a year than not at all.

“Ugh, backups,” you groan. “My IT department is always bugging me to do them. Who has the time?”

Yeah! I agree completely! Who has the time?! Who has the roughly 30 to 60 minutes every two weeks to plug in an external hard drive, press “back up now” and let the computer back itself up? It’s madness!

If your sarcasm meter isn’t in the red right now, you better get it checked. Backing up your computer, your smartphone, your tablet – whatever electronic doo-dad you might lug around with you on a daily basis – has never been easier. You can back up to a hard drive. You might even be able to back up to a thumb drive, provided it’s big enough. Heck, back your important stuff up to the cloud, or to your private online storage space. It’s not that difficult. You don’t need a computer science degree to know how, you just need to know your computer, know where you want the files to be stored, and know how to protect them once you store them.

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