Data Back up & Data Recovery

Electronic contents back up is a very easy thing to do but surprisingly lots of people simply do not bother to back up their data both at personal and Enterprise levels. Almost 3 % of the cases I deal with at my work place are loss of data either through accidental deletion, computers fault or due to natural causes.

There are several ways you can back up your data, The first one I advice my co-workers is to have a copy of their electronic documents in more than one two locations. For example have one copy on their computers, another in the server and a third in a removable device like CD’s, Flash drives, external hard Drives etc, etc.

Its very easy and it takes just little time to back up your data. If you are using Windows platform PCs, I think every windows computer comes with preinstalled back up utility. Here is how it works, Go to start button on Windows XP + All programs + Accessories + System tools + back up then the welcome to Back up and Restore window pops up, Click next and then choose + back up files and settings and then follow the prompt to finish the back up process. Should something go wrong you just follow the same procedure to restore your data the only difference is that instead of choosing back up files and settings you will choose Restore files and settings.

If you decide to back up your data in external hard drives, then I would advice to choose the ones that comes with back up utility. Again its very simple to use and after initial set up of what you want to back up you will just need to press one button once and every thing will be backed up.

There are also online data back up or remote data back up service. This is the best solution for backing up your data if you do not want to deal with buying removable drives. To accomplish this you can either buy your own remote data back up software or subscribe to online data back up services. Google serach key words "online data back up" or "remote data back up" for more information. If you need help to choose which back up plan is best for you please drop me a line.

You do not have to learn how important you data is when it is gone and lost, back up your data now and have peace of mind.