We would like to welcome Backup Platinum, who have graciously joined Mobile Technology Weblog recently as a sponsor. And it is a timely event because I am just now learning the sad lesson of having not insured my critical files are backed up somewhere safe.

Having just recently gotten a new laptop for work, a new computer for my wife, and a nice shiny USB flash drive, I had files scattered all over the place in attempted file transfers and DIY backups. Not surprisingly, I managed to lose some important files, make triplicate copies of some I don't need, an essentially created a big mess for myself.

And yet, with a CD/DVD burner in each of the new machines and some of the old ones, I could have used a good utility like Backup Platinum to take care of the problem before it became a problem. After all, big data centers have automated backup, why shouldn't I?

Backup Platinum 2.0 can create a reserve copy of critical data to just about any type of storage media: hard or USB drives, CD-R/W or DVD±R/RW media, FTP server or local area network. A built-in CD/DVD engine allows you to erase the rewritable disk before burning and automatically split large backups to several parts using disk spanning.
And now that I am running everything over a wireless network with potential for leakage, security would be good.

Backup Platinum 2.0 uses 128-bit encryption with Blowfish and multichoice ZIP compression on the fly are available to keep your backups small and secure. Pop over to their site and give it a go. With more of us mobile, carrying mission critical files and entire iTunes catalogs on laptop hard drives, easy backup is essential.