It should. Whether from colleagues at work or kids at home,
other hands on your PC can only escalate the chances of a mishap. Backup
is the only safe answer. Remember, 80% of data loss is due to human error.
Forget backing up on floppy diskettes -- you might need to use hundreds
of them. Having a full backup of your hard drive, software and Internet
downloads on one tape cartridge is the only sure way to keep your data
safe. You need to know when you've backed up, and, just as important, how
much of your hard drive is full. We have a backup demonstration here that
will illustrate these points for you: