Online Backup - A Necessity for Every Computer Owner

Why is online backup important?

Most people have important (if not priceless) documents and files on their computer. The hard drive of your personal computer may be filled to the brim with years and years of personal photographs, MP3 music, financial records. Business PCs can contain documents with valuable intellectual information, finances, client records, and so on. In a society where we are continually evolving to adapt to an electronic business market, much of our most valuable data is no longer in paper form.

Regrettably (as many of us have experienced) computers are susceptible to crashing, online viruses, theft, and damage from natural disasters, all of which can completely wipe away everything instantaneously. Most businesses that experience such a loss do not survive the subsequent year and imagine losing all your personal photographs. Such a loss is often heartbreaking, difficult, and very frustrating. Not to mention expensive; utilizing services to recover a failed hard drive can cost thousands of dollars.

Why online backup over other methods?

Other methods of backup typically include compact discs and external hard drives. The problem with such methods is not only is it time consuming to backup all your data to these, but such tangible methods are typically in the near vicinity of the original copies, so they are still not protected. For example, if your home is ruined by fire and you did not keep backups in another location, then you have lost both copies and your backup efforts were fruitless.