Back up your files (a memorial)

Big Blue, 1998–2004. It clicked for a week and I thought it was talking to me. It was saying goodbye. My novel, the lake photos, six years of e-mail, all of 2001.

Please back up tonight. Three copies of anything you'd cry about losing, on two kinds of storage, one somewhere else. And open your backup now and then; a backup you've never opened is a hope, not a backup.

The Files section of Downloads has free programs for copying and syncing. — Owen

Big Blue is on the Dead Links Memorial now. A hard drive isn't a link, strictly. It held a great many.

This is item 37 on the checklist, near enough. "Copies of the important papers, kept somewhere else." A hard drive counts. Do it tonight. That's alright; it doesn't take long.

no room left to keep
one more photograph of you
I delete the rest

That one hurts. Thank you.