Home Users - Data Backup
This is the question that majority of the home computer users have not yet asked themselves. How to backup my PC & what kinds of data do I want to backup?
In business environment, there are unlimited options, which the Computer professionals have the access to backup up commercial data.
The home users should not have the same options, as they are totally unnecessary because of the quantity of data that the home users can back up.
While you backup the computer there are lots of different ways to perform it and lots of files & folders can be backed up.
We are going to focus on data files that are formats word, excel, jpegs, mp3’s, and nothing else, like applications folder, program files folder and so on.
For home user you don’t have to backup the whole thing on your hard drive. That will take too much of your time and will get very expensive. I recommend saving all the data files to the 1 spot, if you are Microsoft Windows user; most of the software packages will have the default data to My Documents folder. If you are Mac user then where it will default no one knows! It generally defaults to desktop.
Make the folder and name it meaningful. Name something that you will keep in mind, like the “Computer Backup” or else “My Backup Files”! After that make sure that you save all your significant files to that particular folder. You can default all your files saved in that file so you don’t require worrying regarding clicking and dragging to your folder.
One more computer backup suggestion would be to buy external hard drive i.e. firewire or the USB cable and then plug in your computer. You have to treat external hard drive like an USB Key solution.
Only difference is that there will be more space available on its external hard drive than USB Key. You can as well purchase internal hard drive and install it or if you are purchasing new computer, then you can put one for little amount of money.
This needs to be treated like the original hard drive, and it will have some letter allotted to it (i.e. C, D) or it will get mounted to the desktop.
