macthorough

Right on, every thing on a different spindle... It's good to know a lot about backing up data. Far too often do people lose data over hard drives going bad, someone's laptop gets stolen, etc... And data recovery companies make a killing on data recovery....

My Motto for data is:

"burn it, copy it, move it, print it, lose it"

burn - back up to CD or DVD
copy - multiple copies on the same drive
move - move to different hard drive, flash drive, email account,
print - used this for documents, print them multiple times (and shred and recycle too)
lose - unfortunately expect to lose data, erase data (intentionally or unintentionally), but the other steps help when this happens. I think people get lazy when backing up or forgetful so expect to lose data. Most of the time this only happens once then people learn their lesson.