Your state of the art RAID device is no good if you don’t use it properly to back up your data. Even if you fire up your backup software routinely and make a copy of everything from the boot loader up to your music, you’re leaving a huge gap in your backup policy. You might not realise what you’re missing yet, but the 150,000 people who temporarily lost the contents of their Gmail inboxes earlier this year will know exactly what we’re taking about. There’s something about big-name web apps that make us trust their remote servers, which are just as fallible [...]

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