DATA backup on Windows is important, but tedious, boring also , whether the focus should be to find such a backup solution. The industry has always had this to say, Computer users are divided into two types, one who keep regular backup and other who backup after disaster. Often, only in the case of a disaster data, the backup will be forced to assume the responsibility of those who cultivate the habit of regularly backing up data. However, most users but not in the data backup. A simple option, but is cumbersome to send your valuable files by email. Hotmail offers 5 GB box, Gmail's 5.5 GB (and growing) and Yahoo unlimited one box. There are also free virtual folders to save files offering 5 GB of free space but only download of 1 GB per month.
Google does not offer this service for now, but you can use a Gmail account as a hard disk. The free application Gmail Drive makes it appear as a disk in My Computer, for Mac is the freeware gDisk. Both are based on a development for Linux. Are not officially supported and are not compatible. The cross-platform option is free Gspace extension for Firefox. Here, the speed to copy the files depends on the bandwidth available upstream in our connection, which is usually one-eighth of descent. It is not advisable for the impatient.
In fact, the data on your computer can backup on CD-ROM, USB drives, other computers on the network and the hard drive is convenient. It takes some time. Most backup utilities require users to start, stop and monitor the backup process. Back at the time occupied by the user, the time of origin, they can be used to address other issues. The backup process is very annoying because, it is possible that your computer can use or stalled. The cheapest backup option is the DVD offers 4.5 GB of data for $ 1.4. A tape recorder is priced at $ 40, and newer models are capable of recording at 20x, i.e. a transfer rate of 26.4 MBps. The cons of using optical discs is that the recording should be administered manually. But they are very portable and very easy to make a second copy. I recently went on sale in the country a Blu-ray, a high-capacity formats competing to replace DVD. Blu-ray discs have a capacity of 25 or 50 GB (depending on one or two layers) and have a local price of $ 100 for 25 GB disk, and $ 129 for 25 GB rewritable. Sony sells its BWU-100A burner to $ 3499, which also burns CDs and DVDs.
WHAT TO BACKUP
The short answer is that you lose, you should back up files that are modified. This includes documents, presentations, spreadsheets, financial data and other data files. Also include your Favorites folder, and reserve phone book, appointments and tasks. May also include images, music, video and other important data. Look at all the programs you use frequently. Find these programs create data files, regular backups of these files as objects. These files are not on your My Documents.
The solution is to find such a backup solution: backup for the user can not feel it will not generate enough time to organize the event backup. What I will not speak, for further discussion later. Once you determine which files should be backed up regularly, you must determine where to save the data. At first, it often refers to data backup to a floppy. Today, our documents are large, floppy disks are often not taken. CD-ROM is a popular backup media, now the data storage capacity of 750 MB. DVD can also be used for backup, data storage is much larger than normal discs.
Beginning of this article said that in the back is not easy, so most people are not in the backup. So we must find a practical solution. Not only be convenient, but people feel, and very useful, as well as insurance. If someone on your computer or network connection, the best solution is to get an external hard drive, then into the USB port on the computer. The advantage is that these data storage devices cheaper. If you use a Windows XP, you can use within the Windows Synchronize. Use words, as long as you copy all data on an external hard drive only. Then install the Windows Synchronize, external hard drive when you turn on the computer, it will automatically keep your files updated. If you leave the realization of a laptop, we will build a USB hard drive at home. Do not put your computer bag. If you save the entire desktop data, we must carry the USB drive - or at least put it in separate parts of the desktop computer to prevent a fire or other disaster.
If your computer is connected to the network, such as home or office network, if the network or another computer on the hard drive set aside some backup space. Hard disk is cheap. If you need more space, the other to buy a hard disk, then install it on another computer. Use Windows Synchronize utility, data synchronization can be achieved. If you use a laptop or another place to work, a new product called BeInSync can be via the Internet, automatically laptops and file synchronization is specified for the target computer to connect. BeInSync can automatically update has been designated for synchronization of all files, users do not feel this process. It even lets you synchronize with your friends and colleagues. Because he is running in the background, so you do not save the case, users do not take valuable time.
BeInSync is an important aspect to pay attention to the issue, it would be "My Documents" folder to synchronize all the contents inside. So before you start BeInSync, the My Music, My Videos folders and other high capacity My Documents folder deleted.
RECOMMENDED DAILY BACKUKPS
All modern versions of the Apple MacOS and Microsoft Windows provides a very decent built-in mechanism for backing up data. Enough to stock an external hard drive with USB - and a simple backup system is ready. Please Note: The external hard disk volume to be somewhat more steady - for the future. Offered for sale is a removable USB-drives, consisting of multiple hard drives. In these devices the data is stored simultaneously on all disks, even if one of them fails, the files can always be recovered. Such systems are, of course, more simple removable hard drives, but provide better protection. So start to accumulate on one of these devices or at least buy another external hard drive and regularly change their places.
Backing up your data at home - that's fine, but what would happen if, for example, fire or flood, and all removable hard drives will be destroyed along with the computer? Aerobatics - storing backups in a remote secure location. If the data is copied to two external hard disks, one of them can be kept at work, with friends or in a storage room. Just do not forget to regularly bring him home and update the data. You can also use one of the paid services that provide data storage on a remote server.
Some of us use a computer all day. This means that if we support every day, then we spend the most time for repetitive work no more than a day. If you happen to use the computer and did not need such frequent backups. Once you go to save data, you're ready to save. Here are some of my files to save, if these files are not backed up in case of loss, may be great difficulty for me was:
Outlook.pst - E-mail, tasks, contact lists and calendars
- My Documents - Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
- Favorites – web bookmarks
- Documents and Settings / user / application data, there should be a choice, you probably do not need to visit the Web site after the temporary files generated).
- Attachments - data files and e-mail.
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