After the initial backup process, any of these methods can be set to back up your data incrementally and automatically-the very definition of "set it and forget it." That is, of course, until you need it-the data, that is. Plus, data backup is now built into both Microsoft Windows 7 and Apple's Macintosh OS X operating systems, and most external hard drives and cloud storage services include their own backup software as well. Like most technology journalists, I am constantly reminding my readers to back up their files-computers are inherently unreliable machines that are guaranteed to fail eventually, and the personal data we store on those machines is more extensive and valuable than ever. Best of all, I had been a good boy and backed up everything. My computer had become unreliable, and I was ready for a new one. It was hard to diagnose exactly what the problem was from its brief moments of lucidity-it could have been the hard drive failing, or the motherboard refusing to recognize the drive, or maybe something as simple as a corrupted file structure. Media Platforms Design Team When my computer wouldn't boot for the second time in one week, I knew the end was coming for the 4-year-old PC.
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