By BBermudez
Hello all,
Look out for more posts from me, I am trying to be more diligent about blogging and to better fit it into my schedule!
In any case, nowadays I cannot stress how important it is to maintain regularly scheduled backups. So many people I know have literally lost everything on account of a hard drive failure. Hard drives are really the only mechanical and moving parts within a computer (besides of course the fans). With such constant movement, hard drives are always susceptible and prone to failing; therefore, failure becomes inevitable. There are many options that you could use in order to backup your precious documents. The most popular is usually backing up onto an external source, such as a CD, DVD or external hard drive. External hard drives are not as prone to failure as internal primary drives because they aren’t accessed as often. For most situations, a 500GB drive should be enough capacity to store documents, pictures and videos. Most major brands are generally acceptable…stick to Seagate, Western Digital or Iomega. While usually the easiest ways to backup, these external drives are also susceptible to damage, loss and failure.
A safer, albeit slower method of backing up is to use online/remote services. The data that you back up is off-loaded onto a corporation’s servers that have very redundant systems in place. Some of the major players are iDrive, Mozy and Carbonite. Even though the companies guarantee data privacy and secure channel encryption, some people might be paranoid about having their information on a remote server. Most companies use the same technology as online banking and credit card purchases for the backups.
Whatever method you choose to go with, it is certainly going to relieve any headache and frustration if you have regularly scheduled backup sets to restore from if, and quite frankly when, your hard drive crashes. As always, you want to check your backups to make sure that they are functioning and backing up properly as well.
Till next time,
Bobby Bermudez
