Today's Tip is a simple, but very critical reminder to Back It Up.A distraught student posted an online plea to the person that stole their laptop and said they don't care about the laptop itself. They posted that they would pay one thousand dollars for certain files on the laptop.The student's thesis along with five years worth of their work were only saved on the laptop. Imagine losing something that important that fast!So what could they have done to avoid this major pain? Simply having a backup would have done it.Way too many users purchase an external hard drive, which they call a backup but the way they end up using it, it's nothing close to a backup.A true backup allows you to locate the file stored in more than one place. If the only place that the document exists is on the external drive, it's not a backup.It needs to be saved both in the 'Documents folder' on the laptop and a second copy needs to be stored on the external drive.For the easy backup of important documents, such
