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Living in northern Minnesota gives one the opportunity to see nature in ways people who live in urban and conjested areas will never experience. Two nights ago the Northern Lights shined and danced in the Minnesota skies. I spent most of the night watching and photographing the display. Here is just one photo from two nights ago ... more photos via my photography blog, LakeSuperiorWaves.Com. (click upon image to view at full size)
Northern Lights Over Boulder Lake
While I have cloud storage accounts on DropBox and Google Drive, unlike many of you I only ue these services for very specific low risk purposes. When the number of online services which have been hacked rising, and the extremely low cost of purchasing HUGE external hard drives, it does not make sense to store sensitive, important personal data and files online. In addition, these the smaller of these online services might go bankrupt. Try recovering data from the cloud from a bankrupt service.
My solution is easy:
The image shown below demonstrates how with a single click I easily back up all my important data (documents, email, photos, etc). I've blacked out my file structure for security reasons. Give this process a try!
(click upon image to view at full size)
Post Update: Make certain you read the two comments from Jim and Steve. They make some very good points about backing up your computer. Expanding upon my own post, a even better solution as Steve noted would be to have your backup in a different building. I also like Jim's comments about letting your relatives know how to access your data assuming an untimely demise of yourself! Thanks guys, great comments!
