Earlier today I saw a look of panic and horror on the face of one of my colleagues when he realized that he couldn’t find his 8gb flash drive anywhere. Months ago he went through the same feelings before eventually finding the flash drive in the woodpile at his house. At that time I gave him another flash drive and told him to make copies of his files, he didn’t. Nor did he move them to an online storage service like Drop Box. I hope he finds that flash drive soon because in his words, “losing all of those files could be career ending.”

If you haven’t backed-up your most important files in a while, do yourself a favor this weekend and take some time to do it. Even if you have files saved in the cloud (Google Docs, Zoho, Drop Box) it’s still a good idea to have an offline copy you can access. And if you’re a blogger, take a few minutes to create an offline file of your blog entries.

Want to learn more about Drop Box? Watch the video below for an introduction.