BACK UP LIKE CLOCKWORK!

Jonni Bidwell has a plan – several plans, in fact – to keep his ever-growing repository of data ticking over nicely.

- Jonni Bidwell

There are two types of people in this world: those who back up their files and those who have never experienced data loss. In a world that’s becoming increasingly cloudy, backing up files might seem like an old-fashioned sort of a habit. Much like wearing a watch or writing cheques (…that your body can’t cash? – Ed).

If your Android phone dies (and you  opted in to connecting everything to your  Google Account) then you can restore  your contacts, messages and apps  effortlessly on a new device. If you work   in a corporate environment, then your IT  team can (with a little more work)  probably do a similar thing if your work  machine dies. You might lose a few hours’  work (depending on when and where you  last saved) or some tiny configuration  details, but starting from a base image  applications can be re-installed and your  user account connected in a matter of  minutes, not days. But if your home PC  fails, or even if you accidentally delete  some files, recovery can prove much   more complicated.