Published on Friday, May 16, 2008
By Steven Rosenberg
I always say that it pays to back up your computer and hurts like heck when you don't.
And when purchasing any computer - desktop or laptop - budget for not one, but two backup hard drives. And keep those backups current. In addition, it doesn't hurt to back up family photos and other essentials to CDs or DVDs. Too many backups never hurt anybody.
If only I followed my own advice.
Our main computer at home is a Macintosh iBook G4 laptop given to us by my Mac-loving mother five years ago. Yep, my graphic-designing mom is now in her 70s and has been using Macs since the SE days (that's the late '80s to you and me).
I've only had a backup strategy for the past year, and that strategy consists of one of my favorite el-cheapo hacks: backing up to an iPod.
Yes, an iPod can serve as a backup drive. I have plenty of room on my music player's 30-gigabyte drive to store all of our iBook's user files.
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