Backup Files and Your Entire Digital Life (2026): Hard Drives, Cloud-Based Tools, and Tips
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyMaking backup files is boring, but the alternative—losing your data—is the kind of excitement no one wants. March 31 is World Backup Day, which is lame, but why not use this as the impetus to get everything backed up? Don’t be like me. I once lost 80 pages of a novel to a bad hard drive. I had no backups. Maybe the rest of the world is thankful to have been spared those 80 pages. But who knows? If that hard drive had lived, I might be sipping a Mai Tai on a Maine beach with Stephen King right now.Nowadays, I back up my data at least three times in three physically separate places. I know what you’re thinking—wow, he is really bummed about missing out on that Mai Tai. It may sound excessive, but it costs…
