Back It Up Buddy

What does this site/tool do? Walks you through a simple set-and-forget hard drive backup procedure using a free sync application download.

Cost: Free process, but you need a backup hard drive.

Who Needs It: You Bubba.

Info Page: LifeHacker

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Even the most attentive of us have been found slacking when it comes to keeping our computers consistently backed up. But Death-Taxes-and-Hard-Drive-Failure is now the updated Trilogy of Certainty. It is a new rule of the universe that a hard drive catastrophe will gladly accompany your life down the toilet. So why haven’t you prepared? 

Neither being intimidated by complicated backup applications nor choosing to define your lifestyle as pleasantly slothful is an acceptable excuse anymore. Take a few minutes to deep-six Murphy and prepare for the worst. Read this simple how-to and get on with your silly life.