Monday, March 27, 2006
Back Up Your Computer
Is you important email and data safe? Are all of your precious photographs stored where you will not lose them. Do you back up your computer on a regular basis? Last night and today I am backing up my computer to DVDs. I used to back up on CDs, but one DVD holds about 6 or 7 CDs.
If you do not have a DVD burner built into your computer, you can easily install one. If installing hardware into your computer scares you, do not worry. There are also external DVD burners you connect to your USB port. Fast and easy to do. Just plug it in.
Too many times someone comes into a forum and says their computer just crashed and they lost years of work. There is no excuse for losing that much information. CDs and DVDs are cheap and easy to back up a computer to.
With the low cost of external hard drives, this is another excellent way to keep you data safe. Backing up to a hard drive is about the easiest way.
To simplify your backups you can buy backup software that automates the backup process. The software will automatically back up any new data you enter onto your computer.
One caution, be sure the software you use back up data exactly as it is on your computer. You do not want a program that compresses your files and renames the .backup (dot backup) or anything along that line. You want a jpg or exe file backed up so when you look at the backup it is a jpg or exe file, the same as the original.
The reason for having an exact backup instead of everything crammed into a file called .backup (or whatever name the software gives) is that down the road in a year, your old backup software may not work on the new computer. When you try to retrieve files they are embedded in a format you no long can read.
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