At
the present, our society is occupying the information time, people also having
more and more data, such as business stuff, personal data, etc. So, people are
required to sort out data perfectly and keep data intact. People always tend to
produce fluky psychology that their devices storing precious data work well and
there’s no unexpected error with the data. But one day, it’s a shame that you
find data inaccessible/damaged/corrupted due to accidental deletion, virus
attack, system crash or other unknown reasons.
Although
data recovery
software or expert data recovery company can salvage data from many
complicated scenarios, they cannot guarantee 100% data restore. Therefore, we’re
wise to plan ahead—data
backup.
Based
on expert opinion, I have summarized several important tips when you do home PC
backup.
#1 Back up data regularly.
You’d
better back up files once a week, no matter you choose backup software with
automatic backup feature or do backup manually. An USB drive with large
capacity can be a good option to store a copy. Nevertheless, please do not put all your backup files in one
basket. Besides external hard drive, you should also take the use of
removable optical media like DVDs.
#2 Off-site location is needed to take a
copy of your backup.
What
I mean is that take a copy of your backup to another house or your safe deposit
box, in case that something bad happens to your house.
#3 Check if backup files work well or not.
Some
people never doubt the backup process, while tons of backuped data may turn out
to be unreadable or blank. Actually, this is because the backup software failed
to burn the disk correctly or because someone’s carelessness, although it
supposed to be normal. So, please connect the backup disk to another computer
and then try to open a file. Not just check the directory of files, but open a
file.
#4 Protect your personal data.
Needless
to say that we only back up significant information including family
photos/videos, work files and so much more sensitive information. So, you must protect
your backup file to avoid information disclosure.
#5 Lable backups.
As
the elapse of time, you’ll have many backup disks. If you don’t mark the disks
what they are for, what’s the backup date, you have to load them into computer
one by one. It’s a real hassle to find what you need in the future.
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