Are you protecting yourself from disaster?

Not that I'm superstitious, but I talked to two very unhappy, stressed out professionals in the last 24 hours whose computer hard drives had crashed. At a conference I attended this month, a presenter was in tears as he described the photos he recently lost of his newborn baby when his computer died (he hadn't told his wife yet). We all know that we should be backing up our data. But are you doing it? Regularly?

This is a gentle reminder that taking less than an hour to set up a system can save you mountains of grief and possibly money.

This week I switched to an online backup service because I wanted an automated, effortless system that was more reliable then my memory for technological details. Idrive.com was easy to use and get started with and I love knowing that I have one more system in place taking care of details while I sleep :-). So far, I'm a happy camper. What are you using to protect your computer files?