Here are a few tips when organizing your computer back up:
Keep in mind that a full back up being restored on to a new hard drive will require that the new hard drive be set up identically to the old hard drive or the software being used to restore your information may not work.
Keep your computer back up medium organized! If the back up is spanned across multiple disks for example, they have to be used in the same order when restoring as they were written in.
Always store your computer back ups in a safe place. In a business situation storing them off site would be a good idea in case of fire, flood or break in.
Back up on a regular basis. A computer failure can happen at anytime and without notice so being prepared will save you a lot of grief.
Schedule the computer back up for a time when you know the computer will be on! If you are going to use the schedule feature of the back up software, the computer has to be on at that time. This is something someone who is new to computers or not very familiar with computers tends to forget or does not realize. Yes the computer keeps time when it is off (there’s a little battery in the computer that does this besides a few other things which are beyond the topic of this post) but all scheduled updates and programs need to computer to be on and the operating system loaded to perform the tasks.
Keep the files you use the most often backed up more regularly. Files that change or are added frequently need to be backed up more often than other parts of the computer.A daily back up of these items might be prudent if you work on the computer a lot.
If you are using a computer back up program, have it verify the files once the back up is complete. This will check that the back up is a good working copy of the files.If the back up is faulty,it isn’t much use to you later when you need it.
If you have done the computer back up manually buy selecting specific files (e.g. Burning specific files to cd),just try opening them once backed up to make sure the copy works.
Hopefully you now realize why it is important to perform a computer back up, how to perform a computer back up,what is required to back up a computer and that having a regular computer back up schedule (manually or automatic) will save you from loosing important information on the computer and ultimately save yourself time and grief should you have to restore the computer.
Keep in mind that a full back up being restored on to a new hard drive will require that the new hard drive be set up identically to the old hard drive or the software being used to restore your information may not work.
Keep your computer back up medium organized! If the back up is spanned across multiple disks for example, they have to be used in the same order when restoring as they were written in.
Always store your computer back ups in a safe place. In a business situation storing them off site would be a good idea in case of fire, flood or break in.
Back up on a regular basis. A computer failure can happen at anytime and without notice so being prepared will save you a lot of grief.
Schedule the computer back up for a time when you know the computer will be on! If you are going to use the schedule feature of the back up software, the computer has to be on at that time. This is something someone who is new to computers or not very familiar with computers tends to forget or does not realize. Yes the computer keeps time when it is off (there’s a little battery in the computer that does this besides a few other things which are beyond the topic of this post) but all scheduled updates and programs need to computer to be on and the operating system loaded to perform the tasks.
Keep the files you use the most often backed up more regularly. Files that change or are added frequently need to be backed up more often than other parts of the computer.A daily back up of these items might be prudent if you work on the computer a lot.
If you are using a computer back up program, have it verify the files once the back up is complete. This will check that the back up is a good working copy of the files.If the back up is faulty,it isn’t much use to you later when you need it.
If you have done the computer back up manually buy selecting specific files (e.g. Burning specific files to cd),just try opening them once backed up to make sure the copy works.
Hopefully you now realize why it is important to perform a computer back up, how to perform a computer back up,what is required to back up a computer and that having a regular computer back up schedule (manually or automatic) will save you from loosing important information on the computer and ultimately save yourself time and grief should you have to restore the computer.
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