There's no excuse to not back up files
| October 14, 2007 |  View for printing |
Have you backed up your computer files lately? Horror stories abound. A student loses the term paper she'd been working on for six weeks when her computer crashes; a family loses priceless photos when a laptop is stolen.
According to a recent Carnegie-Mellon University report, hard drive failures affect up to 13 percent of all personal computer users each year. And yet surveys show almost half of users do not back up their data. Even computer-savvy techies such as Jeff Giacomelli, an IT support administrator at Sepracor Inc., a Marlborough drug development company, regularly helps employees who have hard drive failure but still doesn't back up his home computer.
By Cindy Atoji, Globe Correspondent
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