Does anyone know when a light bulb wiIl blow?
The same question applies to your hard drive. When will it die? Hard drives die every day. Whether your hard drive simply dies or you've
dropped your laptop, a computer crash means critical information
is lost. Forever. Unless, of course, your important data files are
backed up. Imagine working for hours, days or weeks on a project
and then losing it all by a system crash, virus or fire. Having
a backup procedure in place will save you countless hours of work
and give you piece of mind knowing your data is safe.
Backup is a crucial part of safe computing. The best backup solution
depends on your needs. Specifically, the most important questions
is this: How much data do you have to back up right now?
If you use a computer you most likely have critical files on your
system that you absolutely do NOT want to lose. Backing up an entire
hard drive or Operating System is simply inefficient and often unsuccessful
when you attempt to recover it. The fact is that 99% of what you
are backing up is easily replaced with your Windows CD! What you
really want to do is target the "critical" files on your
system...they may be database files, email archives, text files,
documents or data files for your favorite software program.