We get in trouble, we call 9-1-1, right? Well the person at the other end may not be willing to help, if it’s a computer emergency. Even though it may be an emergency to us, they’re not going to care about our computers as much as we do. For computer emergencies we all need a “computer guy”. I have a guy and I’m sure lots more are out there with their own guys too. Our computer guy isn’t going to be much help if we wipe our systems clean or accidentally delete everything. The computer guys need something to work with or a point where they can restore things. This is one of the reasons why we need to use a online backup system. If we have the “nuts & bolts” of our computer systems in some back up capacity, it’s relatively easy to get the computer back up and working again.

Now there are bugs and sudden power outages that can cause havoc with our computers too. Sometimes a sudden power outage may cause us to lose some important documents, files, or pictures we had saved or stored on our computers. It’s a good idea to back up anything that you want to keep or would be lost without it. We may have a picture on our computer now and it’s the only copy we have. This is a good example of something that would need to be stored in another offline location or backed up on a file or disk. Learning how to back up our information online is a good way of preventing those 9-1-1 calls to our computer guy!