Posts Tagged ‘backup’

How You Can Back Up Important Files

Saturday, December 25th, 2010

It is very likely that you will have plenty of very important files that you wouldn’t want to lose on your computer, especially if you use it quite a bit. You could have many important documents or personal videos and photographs. In fact losing these files could be disastrous and if we haven’t backed them up they will be lost forever shudder the thought. Although most of us are aware of how important it is to back up our files, most of us don’t actually do it enough because it can seem like a lot of trouble. The fact is though that there are some great ways to back up our files and some of these are completely free and easy.

 

- There are many online programs where you can back up your files and some of these do it for you automatically. The great thing about this is that all our files are protected without us having to do a thing. You may have to pay a bit of money for a service like this but at least you will know that you have protection for your files.

 

- You can store videos and photos in many free online places. You should definitely think about this because at least you will know that you will always have access to your photos no matter what happens.

 

 

- We can also back up some of our data on mobile devices. A lot of these mobile devices have storage space that we don’t normally use so it is a good idea to take advantage of this.

 

- You can always back up your files to an external hard drive or a small key drive; but you do need to keep in mind the fact that there is always the possibility that they could also become corrupted.

 

 

The above are just some of the ways that you could protect your files so that you always have access to them.

 

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Why Its Important To Back Up Your Computer Files

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

It can be really upsetting when you lose data from your computer but this is something that actually happens quite a lot. Even though the cause of this could be any number of reasons, the end result is always the same – stress and a lot of worry. If you have spent the night working on a school project or business proposal and it’s not there when you get up you are going to feel bad about it. Or if your precious family photos had vanished, this would be another devastating occurrence. Sometimes you may be able to retrieve these files, but other times they will be lost forever. Sometimes some of your files will vanish and sometimes all of them will or at least they will appear to vanish and this could be because of human error or a computer malfunction.

 

Computers will eventually give up the ghost after a certain period of time and if you use your computer a lot then this could happen sooner rather than later. Even if your computer works well for you for over ten years, a day will come when it will just pack up an die so to speak, and this is probably when your files will go missing. So making a back up of all your important files is really essential these days especially things like photos, important documents or video files.

 

It can be a pain to do a back up of your files but you would be really glad of it if you had problems later which wiped some of your files. And you can actually find software which will do an automatic back up of your files online or on to another hard drive whenever you set it to.

 

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Why Its Important To Back Up Your Computer Files

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

It can be really upsetting when you lose data from your computer but this is something that actually happens quite a lot. Even though the cause of this could be any number of reasons, the end result is always the same – stress and a lot of worry. If you have spent the night working on a school project or business proposal and it’s not there when you get up you are going to feel bad about it. Or if your precious family photos had vanished, this would be another devastating occurrence. Sometimes you may be able to retrieve these files, but other times they will be lost forever. Sometimes some of your files will vanish and sometimes all of them will or at least they will appear to vanish and this could be because of human error or a computer malfunction.

 

Computers will eventually give up the ghost after a certain period of time and if you use your computer a lot then this could happen sooner rather than later. Even if your computer works well for you for over ten years, a day will come when it will just pack up an die so to speak, and this is probably when your files will go missing. So making a back up of all your important files is really essential these days especially things like photos, important documents or video files.

 

It can be a pain to do a back up of your files but you would be really glad of it if you had problems later which wiped some of your files. And you can actually find software which will do an automatic back up of your files online or on to another hard drive whenever you set it to.

 

With technology marching at an unstoppable rate, most homes today have computers installed but quite often they find they need computer support. And when security issues arise, then usually, virus removal is usually vital. There are other devices many people need help for when issues arise, such as, camcorder help.

The importance of continuously backing up your work.

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

We’ve all been there ; we are working on that large contention for our finals, we’re doing the finishing touches on that large project thats guaranteed to get you that promotion, you’re making the final edits for that client who’s going to literally hand you a burlap bag with a money symbol-when it happens.  It might be a hard drive crash, a power surge, a tremor or a direct slap from God I don’t know-but all your work is gone and you did not back it up.  If you have not begun to feel that wave of icy shock and terror, then you’ve got to prepare-because what will you do when it *does*?  I remember years back, I was finishing my last project for my 2-D advert class, merely a stupid old timey propaganda war poster.  It was raining terribly heavily and the thunder was getting louder, I saved my project under a few separate titles but I would have liked to have a backup-just in case.  I put my USB memory card in and did another fast save-literally a second before we had a brown out / power surge. 

That 2nd of darkness felt like a cold, numb, scaring century.  When the light came back on and my computer started booting up all I could do was pray that my final was there and any damage was not.  My last was on my PC, one of the saves anyhow.  The final was still intact on my USB, but half the other files were corrupted and that port was fried and has not worked since.  The drive itself went 2 weeks later , a week after I handed in my project.  I got lucky, intensely lucky.  Hopefully if it happens again I can be as fortunate.  But always  ‘hoping for the best’ is a very foolish action to take.  That’s's like never wearing a helmet on a bike and hoping you can never get hurt if you hopefully don’t fall-one search on Youtube proves you will get hurt when you fall off a bike.  Hilariously though, but still I’m sure smashing your face on a concrete path hurts. 

Thankfully for people that do enjoy wearing wearing helmets while using our PCs ( or making your PCs roughly wear one ), there are actually many options to be certain our files will be safe and backed up when the time comes.  Online backup is great to store your files, nevertheless it can be prices and you are restrained by the rate of your web and the scale of your information.  If you are prepared to spend the scratch, it easy and convenient and always a comfort knowing that what ever you want should be available to you at all times-as long as a Net source in close.  Which naturally it mostly is, I adore living in THE FUTURE. 

Still, if you’ve got the art of insane coincidence and karma makes a decision to say Sup? when you are backing up your information online-your doubly %$+.  And probably awfully short of a hug to boot. 
To avoid that rare catastrophe you can go with the classic strategy of offline info storage, the external disk drive.  Prices start for as little as under 20 greenbacks and you can buy one just about anywhere, it’s truthfully one of those invests you will be grateful for. 

Any PC with USB or Firewire capability will see the external disc drive as a storage gadget and allot it a letter to designate it.  Whenever you plug it in, you fundamentally just deal with it like any standard hard drive.  You simply drag and drop what you need, it’s super easy to transfer huge files forwards and backwards from work to home, to a friend’s house, or between your desktop and laptop.  It’s particularly helpful if you tend to keep large amounts of photographs, music, flick, or game files on your PC too.  Just treat your external like your attic, toss everything in there that you do not truly use or need-but your hoarder instinct is too dynamic to just remove them.  This way you get to fulfill your compulsion, your personal computer runs faster, and you all of a sudden have more space to hoard more data!  Or you can actually use if for critical stuff like I discussed earlier, so that in an emergency your info will remain safe and sound.  But I understand if that doesn’t slake your desire to having floor to ceiling hard drives for your LOLcat addiction .

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The Utlimate Data Recover Questionnaire

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Data backup and recovery is one of the most overlooked parts of a company’s IT structure. With all of the technology available today, the absence of even the most elementary backup solution is a mortal sin in regard to the business technology universe. There are affordable backup and data recovery systems in every price range, so even companies with limited budgets can afford an elementary system at the very least. Also many computer services firms now offer backup and data recovery systems as integral parts of their managed IT services.

Here are the top 10 questions to answer when pondering the right backup and data recovery system:

1. What happens if I delete a file?
2. Where is my email stored and is it backed up?
3. What if my computer crashes? Even if my data is saved how long will it take me to rebuild my computer to a functioning state?
4. Is my data all located in the same physical space?
5. Will a catastrophe wipe out my backup solution i.e. {an earthquake,a fire, a flood}?
6. Does my business rely on any one system for business critical functions? How long can my business operate without a functioning system? Does my current backup solution accomodate that expectation?
7. Does someone in our company know how to retrieve information off backups?
8. Are my backups tested so I know they work?
9. Are my backups monitored so I know if they are ever failing?
10. Is the backup data media (i.e. hard drives or tapes) transferred in a secure, controlled manor since it contains all data for my entire business?

These questions covers about 1/4 of the questions that one should review when it comes to a practical backup and disaster recovery system so if you haven’t asked yourself these questions, start today!  If you are overwhelmed, contact a local computer services provider which should be able to assist your company.