Losing precious data is everyone's worst nightmare. It's a traumatic experience, and the fallout can resemble a textbook case of the Five Stages of Grief. You know you should’ve done all you could to keep everything from your most private documents to precious photos backed up. So why didn’t you?

Today, Matthew Dornquast, CEO and co-founder of Code 42 Software (the company behind CrashPlan, the incredibly versatile backup software) is here in the comments to answer your questions about the importance of regularly backing up your data, the benefits of backing up in the cloud, and how CrashPlan can give you an almost bulletproof file recovery solution.

So say hi, and let’s get this conversation started.