Backups

It's been a weird week, enough hard drives failed that if I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd be wanting a word with the Chinese. No one was spared, friends, colleagues, clients and even Clif from Sonikmatter suffered. For those of you lucky enough to be spared, it's bad, really bad, it's not the kind of thing you'd wish on a racist taxi driver, it's that bad.
It's one of those despair in the pit of your stomach moments, you'll be angry, tearful, frustrated and then angry again. The bad news is you're on your own, there's not a hard drive manufacturer I've come across that will cover the data. If your drive is under warranty you may get a new drive or a repair but you won't get your precious data back.
The good news is hard drives are cheap, there's good free back up software and once you've set it running your back up can proceed unsupervised. There's no excuse, go and back up now.