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Data
Backup
Importance of regular backups
Computer software and hardware
crashes can happen at any
time. We routinely have
customers bring us broken computers
with data that can't be
recovered. how much is your
data worth to you? How many
hours or thousands of hours of
documents would be lost if your hard
drive died? How about photos
or videos?
Have a strategy
One backup strategy is to save
everything you create in the
"My Documents"
folder. Then when you perform
your weekly backups you only have to
back up one folder--the my documents
folder.
What to backup
We recommend making a
list of things you wouldn't want to
lose in case of disaster.
Common things that need to be backed
up are the following"
- Office Documents (Word,
Excel, PPT, Access)
- Quicken
- Quickbooks
- Favorites
- Email
- Address Book
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Where to backup to
There are many different ways to
backup your data. Here is a
short list of different options
1. Floppies--can hold 1.44
MB of information
2. CDs--can hold 700 MB of
information
3. Zip--can hold 100 to 700 MB
of information
4. Tape Driver--can hold up to
50 GB of information
5. Hard Drive--can hold up to
200 GB of information
6. FTP location--up to 1 GB of
information
Automated Backups
One of the best way to backup your
data is to us a program that will do
it automatically.
We recommend Handy
Backup. You can download a
free trial by clicking here.
Handy Backup is an easy-to-use yet powerful backup program designed for Windows 9x/NT/2000/Me/XP.
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