Q. Why do people put their belongings in safety deposit boxes?
A. Because they're secure, not very expensive, offsite from their home, and they feel the belongings have enough value to warrant the added inconvenience of going to the bank to make deposits or withdrawals.
If you have important data on your computer, why aren't you taking the same steps? You can securely store your data offsite for a low cost of $2/GB but never have to leave your home to do it. In fact you never have to do anything at all once it's setup! The service is called Data Deposit Box and I highly recommend it, especially for businesses.
Try its free trial and you'll see how easy it is. The best part is that instead of just backing up once a day, it actually backs up any changed files at any time your computer is idle. This makes it virtually impossible to lose data even if you just worked on it 30 minutes ago. I recommend a 2-level backup to my clients, where you backup nightly to an external harddrive and all the time to an offsite source like Data Deposit Box. The harddrive can be used when you have a computer problem, errors, reformat, etc, but in the case of theft, fire, or other disasters you'll be glad you had your data offsite. It can also act as a file sharing program since you can access your backed up files any time on the web.
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