Computers are a vital part of almost everyone's lives in today's society. Less associated problems enables people and businesses to concentrate on other more pressing issues. The unfortunate fact of life is that computers do from time to time have their data corrupted. Many people leave themselves open to large bills for recovery experts or data recovery software purchases from trying to solve the problem. If they had backed up their data quickly and efficiently much stress and time would not have been spent on retrieving their data. Sometimes data is irretrievable, causing maximum heartache! Improved knowledge of how to backup your computer data is a sure fire way of making your life much easier!
The old adage that 'prevention is better than a cure' is very much a serious point with regards to data recovery. By simply backing up your data frequently in a sensible, logical, easy to find location you are able to hugely improve your efficiently at finding a solution to a data loss crisis. Time and stress with locating and re-loading your saved data will be far less than if you hadn't taken the short time and effort to produce the back-ups and/ or program files from the originals.
Computer files can be backed up onto any of the large selection of media available today, e.g. CDs, external or internal hard drives, DVDs, tape drives or specifically designed removable media such as the Iomega REV drive. Optical media usage (e.g. DVD's, CD's) is believed to be far less reliable in terms of a backing-up data. This media is typically more prone to surface errors. The advantages and disadvantages (regards capacity/ ease of use, etc) of each specific media form should be chosen with regards to your personal situation. Importantly each media type will tend to perform efficiently, its best to try and stick to the media type that you find works best.
Many very reliable back-up programmes are in existence, one of the most well acknowledged is included in Microsoft Windows back-up software. Microsoft Windows XP users will know this programme as NTBackup. If your computer doesn't already have this installed all you have to do is simply place your Windows CD in your computer disc drive and find the file called 'ValueAddMSFTntbackup'. This is a file can that can then be run in the folder with which it was originally found, i.e. ntbackup.msi. Rapidly this file will create the backup software you require, wizards ever present to help lead you through the file backup and restoration protocol.
With all the important backup software installed and fully functional it is imperative that you make use of it frequently. Making backups of your work should be done at least once daily ideally. If at all possible a separate backup drive or disc should be used for every day of the week. This will provide that extra added security and peace of mind, allowing you to concentrate on more pressing issues. The majority of businesses, from the large to tiny, adopt this basic and also fundamental data loss prevention method, and for a very good reason, it really works and can save a huge amount of stress, time and often vitally, money.
