[fabsroman]

Tall Shadow, how did you lose everything if it was just your backup drive that crashed? You should still have everything on your main drive. Me, I use two external USB drives and try to back everything up on a weekly basis. I alternate between the two drives and leave one over my parents' house in a fire proof safe, and as soon as I get my own fire proof safe I will be leaving the other one in there instead of on my desk.

Four years ago I used to back up my data to CD, but since buying these enternal USB drives, life is a lot easier. I created a file structure where all my data is in two main folders off of the C: drive, so I just copy those folders to the USB drives, and one of the folders within those folders is my "backup folder" which has back up folders for my financial software data, Outlook data, and Explorer favorites list. This way, I do not have to think too much about backing stuff up. It has become routine and I do it on Friday nights before going to sleep.