i've worked at a couple of small companies that didn't regularly back up their data , and soon or later they will wished they had, at one company they lost many months worth of their accounts, so a few of them spent weeks going thru delivery notes and invoices to find who owed them money . most companies would never survive this.

programs can be easily replaced, data like your accounts, pictures,chat logs cannot be so do regular back ups


i think you said you was a s/w developer jim, what languages do you program in ?