I can’t express with words or graphics the importance of backing up your hard drive. Any money INVESTED in an external hard drive is worth every cent because piece of mind cannot be monetized.

My attempt to back up my hard drive over a long impatient weekend full of glitches and error messages led me to Tekserve where I was informed everyones greatest nightmare: “just to prepare you for the worst case, you might need a new hard drive”... then after diagnostic “yea, so I am not really sure how your computer is even running – it crashed”. The outcome was that thankfully even as my computer slowly crashed into the afterlife, it still turned on and ran well enough (sort of) to let me back up as much as I could.

Not everyone’s computer shares the same values as mine (which runs even when there is no reasonable explanation as to how it even turned on). Had I not been able to backup my files I would’ve lost blood, sweat, tears, free labor, bartered labor, bored labor – I would’ve lost a chunk of my life.

YOU TRY:

1. INVEST in an external hard drive that fits the requirements of the file sizes you will be archiving. Be sure to leave room for the addition of new/updated files as your company and portfolio grows.

2. SCHEDULE BACKUPS regularly. Depending on how frequently you create and edit files create a schedule and be sure to stick to it. Set an alarm or find a way to schedule automatic updates.

So the flaw in all this, who knows where my software backups have gone…