Thank you to JL Beeken for submitting the following:
The day I lost 10 years of detailed personal journals when both backup CD’s cracked through the middle, one after the other in quick succession, I decided there’s no such thing as too many backups. I had spent months digitizing box loads of old paper and the chance of losing both CD copies at the same time (without a catastrophic natural event out of my control) was about one in a trillion but it happened anyway!
If you haven’t lost any computer data yet consider yourself one of the Chosen Few. But if I were you I wouldn’t push my luck. Hard-drives die, software goes on the fritz, a surprise virus attack can bring all your best laid plans to a screeching halt… If you think you can keep skateboarding through Computer Land without a mishap the odds are minuscule.
I usually backup to my flash drive because it is so convenient and portable. It takes longer to backup to a CD or floppy and I feel the flash drive is more secure.