A couple of weeks ago I had a phone call from a friend of mine saying his computer had crashed and he was unable to access any of his files.

I popped round to see him, checked out his computer and found there had been a hard disk failure.

My next question was do you have a backup of your data, the answer was NO!

I had told him before how important is was to have backup copies of his files so that in the event of this type of situation he could easily get up and running again, but like so many people he thought it would never happen to him, BUT IT DID!

I took away his computer and after a weeks work using some extremely expensive specialist software I managed to recover most of his files, if he hadn’t been a friend this would have cost him a lot of money.

A computer hard disk is a mechanical device and WILL, like any mechanical device, eventually fail, most will outlast the life of the computer but not always.

Most people in the network marketing industry are convince it will never happen to them but occasionally it does, if there are backups of the files stored on your computer, all you need to do is buy a new hard disk, load all of the programs onto it, then restore your personal files from backup and you are back up and running in a few hours.

If you don’t have a backup it is quite possible that you may lose your files altogether. Your programs are easily reloaded but your files are exclusive to you.

It is not difficult to backup all your files either to a data stick, external hard disk or to an online storage facility, one online storage facility that I use is DropBox, ( I dont receive any payment if you sign up through my link) this offers you the opportunity to connect several computers to your account and when you update files on one it automatically updates the same file on all of the others while still giving you 2Gb of space for free, if you need more you have to pay for it.