{"id":5635,"date":"2010-08-09T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2019-03-10T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:32:02","slug":"in-case-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/in-case-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case of Fire…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you use an external hard drive<\/a> to back up your files on a regular basis – give yourself a big pat on the back!<\/h3>\n

With luck you'll never have to use it. <\/p>\n

Or, it'll save your precious data in the event of a internal hard drive failure. <\/p>\n

Seriously, I wish I had a buck for each person who wrote to ask for a replacement of their Super Affiliate Handbook because their computer had crashed – the numbers are that big.<\/p>\n

But did you know that external hard drives fail just as often as the hard drives built into your computer<\/strong>? Or, that in the event of a power surge, the external hard drive will suffer the same fate as the computer hard drive?<\/p>\n

And the scenario gets worse…<\/p>\n

Have you thought about how you'd recover your data if your computer was stolen – or, goodness forbid – your residence was subject to a natural disaster such as a fire, flood, tornado or earthquake?<\/p>\n

Think it can't happen to you?<\/h3>\n

Take a look at that picture at the top right-hand side of this post — I took that picture here in town. Fires can and DO happen.<\/p>\n

Losing your most valuable files is a very real possibility. According to statistics:<\/strong><\/p>\n