There are so many ways of backing up your data that, other than simply saying "do it!", I hesitate to even start talking about it. But one post made me think about some of the simpler techniques that require very little technical skill from the user. Even this general solution has a number of different providers, but I will mention just one that I have used successfully in the past. Call this an unsolicited endorsement for iDrive (http://www.idrive.com/). The free version gives you 2 Gigabytes of storage. For $5/month you can get 150 Gb. Currently, it backs up my Genealogy folders, using up 1.8 Gb of my free 2 Gb space. All you have to do is identify the bunch of folders that contain things you want saved and, once a day, it copies any changes to the iDrive servers on the Internet. Read the website for info on how safe / secure / reliable those servers are. It can keep multiple versions so that if you've made several changes to a file you can recover one from 6 months ago instead of the most recent one. I have other backups of my Genealogy info, in other places, with other technologies, as well. But this one requires nothing from you once you set it up. And the one time I needed it, everything worked perfectly. Regards - Glen C. Bodie Web http://Bodie.CA Home mailto:glen@glenbodie.com or mailto:Glen.Bodie@gmail.com Cell mailto:TyTN@Bodie.ca (no attachments) Snail Mail: 76 Strathcona Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4J 1G8