To do a data backup is not the question, the question is how and what to backup!

DIY-Computer-Repair can help!

What is data? The term that we use for any file that is not part of the Operating System or program that changes or can be changed by a user is data, documents, spreadsheets, email, or any other information that is created by the user.

A person or business that only changes a word doc or spread sheet once a week wouldn't back it up daily.

A person or business that has constantly changing documents should backup daily. A backup is only as good as the last time it was accomplished, in other words if you don't backup on a regular or scheduled basis then any data you generated between the backup and the recovery will be lost. Backup regularly on a schedule!

Where to backup your data to? Well this depends on how much data you have. Say you have a small business. Your business uses email and spread sheets and occasionally a word document. Your total daily generated data may be ten meg of data. This of course is to large for a floppy.

There are different types of backups:

	Incremental
	Differential
	Full
	Image

There are different types of devices:

	Tape Drive
	CD Rom (rewriteable disks)
	Flash drive
	External hard drive.

 

The actual backup:

	Manual backup
	Automated backup
	Do you know how to use the backup program built into Windows XP? Backup for Windows XP

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