Wes’s Life

Well, here’s a simple and easy to follow tip: always back your files up. And I don’t mean just your doc­u­ments, I mean every­thing. I’ve been play­ing around with my Win­dows instal­la­tion lately, installing Vista and rein­stalling Vista and then even­tu­ally going back to XP. Each time, back ups have saved me time, energy and most impor­tantly – sanity.

The first time I almost lost all of my pho­tog­ra­phy which would have done me in. Sure, I have a lot saved on Flickr, but not every­thing and not at full qual­ity. Plus, I would have lost all of my RAWs. On the second instal­la­tion I lost the latter part of my music library and my all of my school email. I am now a full on sup­porter of back­ups. Make sure you do it fairly often – I back up twice a week – and get a good reli­able exter­nal drive.