Did you know Easter was World Backup Day as well?

With World Backup Day upon us once more, take some time to consider your data-protection plan. Online backup makes this easy, affordable, and secure.

This year's ersatz World Backup Day holiday coincides with a real one, Easter, and, while you could make analogies about resurrecting your data, the holiday the event's organizers want to focus on the one that comes a day later: April Fool's Day: If you're not backed up, there's a chance you could end up looking like a fool. All foolishness aside, the point of the faux holiday is an important one: We're creating vast amounts of digital content—photos, videos, music, and documents—all of which is just a hard drive crash away from obliteration. Other data-ending events threaten, as well: You could be the victim of a fire or flood, or you may just delete data unintentionally.

You could simply back your precious files up to an external hard drive or rewritable DVD, and you can find good software for this in our roundup of backup software. But an online backup service offers the advantage of securely storing your files at off-site server locations. This way, your data stays intact and available even if your local disks are stolen or your premises are hit by damage. And with more and more emphasis on "cloud computing," it only makes sense that backup should take advantage of this hot trend in technology.  Check out this link from PCMag on the ten most popular online solutions.  Pick one, any one, just pick one!