We all have very important pieces of data all around our homes.
You cannot do much these days without some of these items.
I am talking about the information on your Passport, Birth certificate, Driving License, the data on your Personal Computer, Laptop or Palmtop.
The information held in our homes and on these devices will not seem important until they are lost or destroyed.
Please just think seriously on this for a minute.
'Your home is flooded and there is only just enough time to escape.
' Don't cheat, think for a minute.
Ok, have you finished thinking? Well after such a tragedy how do you then start doing the everyday things you take for granted.
How do you shop at the supermarket, fill your car up or go out for a meal, maybe the cinema? For all of these activities you need cash, a cheque, a Debit card or a credit card but now you have none of them and are going to find it very difficult and time consuming to identify yourself to even start to get any replacements.
You therefore will have the headache of identifying and replacing Share certificates, marriage, birth and death certificates, mortgages and deeds.
Forget copying the data to an external Hard drive, flash drive, USB pen or burning a CD-ROM/DVD.
If you have a computer you should have access to email and that is where you begin.
As long as you can send an email you can backup all your important information and documents.
So send yourself an email today that contains all your important data.
I send emails to my own email address regularly just as a basic reminder for a new idea, a possible patent or invention.
This not only gives me a backup but it adds a date and time stamp for a reference.
To give yourself the greatest piece of mind put your information on external devices and or burn them onto CD-ROM/DVD, you could even use Computer tape, some companies still use them.
Above all else make sure the backup you create is moved from your home and put somewhere safe.