Why You Need to Backup your Data
If you’re someone who uses a computer for anything in your day-to-day life, you need data backup software. This software can ensure that your most important data remains after any sort of failure within your computer. We have many things on our computers that we have put a lot of time and effort into. Sure, we could go back and do it again, but it’s hard to get the feeling back from the moment you wrote the perfect song. None of us could remember everything we wrote down, so the best parts of what we created get lost forever.
But protecting data is something all of us need to worry about, not just the writers, musicians, filmmakers and other creative people. Imagine storing every last bit of your financial information for a year leading up to the following tax season. You don’t have any hard copies of any documents because you hate how it clutters up your desk. Then your computer crashes, sending that information you painstakingly compiled deep into the digital abyss. You’re left scrambling and are likely going to file taxes late this year, if you’re able to file taxes at all.
Take a big corporation for instance. They’re working on a multimillion-dollar project that has a lot riding on it. The project goes on for months and takes up a lot more time and money than anticipated. The company doesn’t believe in backing up their data because it’s a waste of time. They would rather work harder and faster to get the project done before they even need to consider backing up their data. One power surge and hardware failure later and they’re back where they started. Nothing can be recovered and they’re already behind schedule and over budget. Failing to protect their data could’ve lead to the undoing of their company.
Consider a nursing home or other healthcare facility. All of their patient records are digital these days, which means that data could mean life or death for some of us. If they fail to protect their data and something happens, who knows the catastrophic results it could product. A patient could lose the prescription information for a medication they desperately need and the entire process would grind to a screeching halt while they try to locate the lost information. Medicine is the last possible area that should be slowed down by data failure.
The above mentioned are examples of why backing up your data is crucial. Data backup software can help you protect and restore your data when something goes wrong. Depending on the software you choose, this could be a quick and painless process or a slow and arduous one. You want to choose the program that best suits your needs and accomplishes what you need to get done. Don’t be left out in the cold without your important documents again. Get data backup software and keep what should have remained on your computer the entire time. Just because computers aren’t perfect doesn’t mean your efforts to protect your data should be.
How To Back Up Data
Step by Step: Using Windows or a Backup Program
Step 1 Open the Start menu and click Control Panel.Step 2 From the Classic View, open Backup and Restore Center. Using the new control panel, click Back up your computer under the 'System and Maintenance' heading.
Step 3 Click the Back up files button from the Backup and Restore Center menu.
Step 4 Select where to store the backed up files. The first drop-down menu allows you to choose from local drives such as a second hard drive, a DVD, or a recovery partition on your current hard drive. The second drop-down menu lets you select a location that you can connect to via a network. If you do not see your desired backup destination, try selecting the Refresh option from the drop-down menu.
Step 5 Click the Next button after selecting your desired location.
Step 6 Select which types of files to back up, and then click the Next button to proceed.
Step 7 Assign a schedule to your backup so that Windows will know how often to create a new backup of your files. Click Save settings and start backup when you are ready to create your backup.
Step by Step: Manual Backups
Step 1 Open Windows Explorer.Step 2 Select the files to back up, and copy them to the Clipboard by right-clicking them and selecting Copy, or by pressing Ctrl+C. You can also drag and drop folders.
Step 3 Open the destination folder where you wish to back up the data. This folder should be on an external hard drive or on a DVD. This method is less precise than using a program like Windows Backup and Restore, but it will allow you to select exactly which files to back up.
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