Danger/Microsoft

Danger, a Microsoft subsidiary, may have lost all the contact data for 800,000 T-Mobile customers. That is because that data was stored on servers and not in the devices. That is also true of GMail and your computer too.

To back up the contacts on GMail I did the following:

• I went to GMail - http://mail.google.com/a/ls.net/ and logged in
• Next I clicked Contacts
• Once my contacts page loaded I clicked Export
• Then I chose "Everyone" and "Outlook CSV Format"
• Finally I clicked "Export" and saved the output to my hard disk.

I'll put that data in a folder I backup to a USB drive and copy it to my laptop.

Once a month is not too often, once a week would be better.