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If you have a computer, it is irresponsible to overlook having a backup system or two to protect your information. Let's hope nothing will ever compromise your files but, if something does, you will have the peace of mind of knowing that your data is secure. Backing up your data does not have to be complicated or expensive. Actually, you can find free solutions that could possibly meet your needs very well. A popular solution for storing important information is an external hard drive, which many people use. Aside from giving you a safe place to store files, they can also help ease the load on your computer's memory and can help it run faster. Measured in the terabytes, the external drives used today can store an amazing amount of information. If you have a thousand gigabytes, then you have a little more than a terabyte. This is a good solution if you have a large amount of data to store, whether for personal or business reasons. Today many companies are making external hard drives for easy transportation by making them lightweight, compact and portable. If you happen to have a fire or other similar disaster, all of the information that you have on an external hard drive or computer can still be lost. Depending on your needs, there are some online services that are free, which will work as backup solutions. The nice thing about Dropbox and Google Docs is they are free, so you can see if they will work without paying anything. Having more than one computer with Dropbox installed on each one, can make file sharing and updating very easy. When you need other people to access your files, this becomes very useful. Getting signed up with Google Docs is rather easy, especially if you already have another Google account, such as email. An upgraded account with either of these sites, will give you a lot more storage space than the free version. A backup place to store data that needs to be at a high level of security, will need to be somewhere other than these two places.