In this decade computers have become such a mainstay, backup is nolonger a 90s comic strip gaff. Â Even your grandma, whoâs onlyusing that âcomputerboxâ for flooding your inbox with kittens incostume chain-emails, probably has a general understanding of whatbacking up a hard drive means. Yet, this continues to be a taskeven the most frequent computer users ignore. The most commonreason people give for not backing up their data is that they donot know where to begin, what devices to use or how to go about thebackup process.