When starting to take backup of your data by using windows backup software, it is very important to know your needs and what to backup. If you are taking backup of everything, you could add unnecessary cost to yourself or if you are taking backup of the wrong files, you could end up with a data disaster. This small article will help you set up a backup solution that fits your needs.
How much is your data worth?
What would your family say if all your digital photos suddenly disappeared or all your private budget files accidentally were deleted? What about your own small company loosing all invoices and customer registrations? What about you loosing all your outlook contacts?
These are all questions you have to ask yourself before determining what much your data is worth and why to have to ensure a backup copy is always secure
Important files
Here is a list of the most common files to add to your backup set. These examples may not cover all your requirements but they are important to most people.
- The folder(s) containing all your office documents
- The folder(s) containing all your digital photos
- The folder(s) containing all your projects
- Your internet bank security key
- E-mail messages
- E-mail contacts and calendar from outlook or similar
- Website bookmarks - maybe not critical but easily added
- Software or music purchased from the internet
Besides these files, you must also be sure to add any work related program data to the windows backup software configuration.
Determine your needs
Once you have selected all these files and folders, you should have a better overview of your backup needs. When thinking of your backup needs, you must decide how often you expect this backup to run, how big your backup will be and so on.
Choose your Windows backup software solution
Windows Backup Software can either be an offline solution or an online solution. Offline backup solutions will maybe be adequate if you are only backing up a few files and that these files do not changes very often. Examples of this could be your security key for your internet bank and maybe this year's budget. If this is the case, you can just add an event in your calendar to remind you to copy the files to a USB stick every 6 months.
If you are using windows backup software for taking a full backup of all the examples mentioned above, you are better off selecting an internet backup service. These online backup solutions are easily configured, very cheap (free if the backup size is below 2 GB) and a very secure way of storing your data.
This option also gives you the possibility of accessing your data from everywhere as long as you have an internet connection.
Online backup solutions are by far the best option available to the normal user looking for windows backup software.
1 comment:
This function there is in a Bat,but it can't restore data,i know tool which is able to do it-outlook contacts recovery,and i have a feeling that utility is free,also software restore all emails, contacts, messages, tasks and calendars are stored on server, not on your PC,also store all contacts, as well as messages, tasks and calendars are stored in *.ost format,recover contacts from ost, repair contacts Outlook and restore all data, that was considered to be lost,can export contacts to *.vcf files, that can be exported to Personal Information Management (PIM) tools or Windows Address Book,restore a list of files in *.eml, *.vcf and *.txt formats,exporting of recovered content into a file with *.pst extension, that can be easily opened offline with Microsoft Outlook or any other compatible email client.
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