dan ackerman is an editor. all right. let's get to the issue.m one of those people, the entrepreneurs who lost all my data. it's a nightmare. >> what did you do to prepare for that? >> nothing. now, i'm so prepared. i backed up my stuff all over the place. but i didn't. i had been running my business for years. stupid. >> we tell people to back up their stuff. they say they will. at the ent of the day, you are busy and that's fine until something happened. hard drives will fail eventually. 100% of them will die. >> how do you back up? >> i say have a three-point plan. have the data on your commuter in front of you, the laptop or desktop. then a local back up. an external hard drive like this. that's easy enough. if your house floods, there's a fire, your computer is here, it's five feet away. make a third back up online somewhere, like with the cloud. use a cloud service or send yourself something by g-mail. three places. >> are there back up services that you particularly like? >> carbonite making sure it's available. >> it does it automaticall