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Backing Up Your Files

 

Back-Up




   Why Backup Your Computer Data?  
   

Simply put, backing up can mean the difference between a slight computer setback and living through your own electronic apocalypse.

Our computers are a bigger part of life than ever before. We shop, work and play using computers. They’ve replaced stereos, encyclopedias, even the mailman. They’ve become journals, photo albums and canvases for our art.

But computers aren’t perfect. Files become corrupt, motherboards malfunction, hard drives call it quits taking our precious data with them.

The best defense is data backup. Backing up data is vital for businesses; lost information can cause a major crisis or worse, lead to business failure. Individuals who don’t backup computer data run the same risk. While this may not cause financial ruin, it can certainly be frustrating and even heartbreaking. So why do so few of us practice data backup?

  
       
    The Excuses  
   

“I don't know how to backup data.”
Like preparing for a natural disaster, most of us understand how important data backup is, but don’t know where to start. A big step is deciding how you are going to store the data you backup.


“My computer won’t crash – it hasn't so far.”
You've had your computer this long and haven’t had problems so far why worry about computer backup now? Data backup is about protecting your data's future, but with computers, it isn't if you crash, it’s when you crash. The longer you have gone without losing data, the more likely you are to lose it soon. Computers are vulnerable to complete unrecoverable loss of data at any time. It is good you have been luck so far. You can depend on that luck, or you can simple make sure you don't have to.


I guide you through your options and make it painless and simple.

 
         
      Mac OS X: How to back up and restore your files  
     

Backing up can be as easy as learning how to burn a CD (and what to put on it). But if you want to make a study this subject, Apple has a lot of resources.

 
         
      How to back up and restore your important Mac OS X 10.4 files  
      Here are specific tips from Apple on backing up and restoring OS X files.  
         
      Back Up Automatically with SuperDuper  
      Now you can make sure your backups are done automatically with software costing less than $30. What you need: SuperDuper!  
 
 
     

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