Net wants to get your back-up

Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy two years ago joked with a group of people about back-up. 'You do it every day, don't you?' he asked. Everybody laughed. 'At Sun, we have people whose only job is to back up data. If they don't do it every day, they get fired.' Most of us are not at Sun Microsystems, nor do we have the funds to pay others to back up our data. So, do we back up every day? I doubt it.

Should you be worried? How important is your data? Those with experience and sense do some kind of back-up, even if only to a floppy, a Zip or some other kind of disk.

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