When was the last time you backup your  com­puter? Believe it or not, there’s one thing that’s true with com­put­ers and it is, they some­times crash with­out warn­ings. When that hap­pens, you will cer­tainly lose some infor­ma­tion impor­tant to you, and that’s sucks.

Instead of wait­ing for the inevitable, you can sign up for a free 2GB online stor­age to backup your impor­tant data auto­mat­i­cally so the day your com­puter crashes, you can at least retrieve your impor­tant data. This process, once setup, will auto­mat­i­cally backup your crit­i­cal data in the back­ground with­out any inter­ac­tion from you.

If you need more space, you can always upgrade for more stor­age space online with few clicks. Unless you’re back­ing up your whole com­puter, I doubt you’ll run out of space with the free stor­age offered to you any­time soon.

To sign up for this ser­vice, you’ll need to go here and reg­is­ter for an account. The reg­is­tra­tion process is also easy to follow.

To sign up for a free 2GB stor­age click here and register.

1) Login to your account and con­fig­ure other set­tings as you wish.

2) Down­load and install the client that will per­form the backup process. Click here to down­load the client soft­ware. Click Run when prompted.

3) Click Next to con­tinue. Accept the license agree­ment and continue.

4) Select the loca­tion to install. Next when the instal­la­tion is com­plete, enter your user­name and pass­word to con­nect to your account.

5) Cre­ate an encryp­tion key (pass­word). Keep this pass­word save because you’ll need it when you want to restore files and folders.

6) IDrive Clas­sic Panel. Here, you can con­fig­ure auto­matic backup of files and fold­ers. Doc­u­ments and other fold­ers are selected by default. To enable con­tin­u­ous backup,  client the but­ton at the bot­tom right.

7) To refine the selec­tion, expand the plus sign on the left of the fold­ers to include more files and fold­ers. It is impor­tant to select only crit­i­cally impor­tant files and folders.

To restore files and folder, click on the Restore but­ton and select the file or folder to restore.

When you’re done, click the x at the top to close the pro­gram. All your files and fold­ers that are selected to be backed-up will auto­mat­i­cally backup. You can always go back and add more files or folder as you wish.

Also, upgrad­ing to more space can be done directly from the con­sole panel.

Enjoy and come back soon.