With important emails, long contacts lists, work documents and treasured photos all living on board your tablet or smartphone, it would be heartbreaking to lose your data if the device itself was lost, stolen or damaged.

Fortunately, it's easy to set up secure, reliable backups of all the data on your Android device. We show you how in the video below.

Video: Back up data on an Android tablet

Remember, Android devices come from many different brands, each of which apply their own custom interfaces. In most cases, the directions above should be virtually the same to what you'll find on your own Android tablet or smartphone.