Backing up My Data

By Nainil Chheda

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Why Backup?Why Backup?

1. Electronic items are prone to failures.

2. Data loss or corruption is one of the outcomes of a technical failure.

3. Time, Effort and Money has been invested in your data. You do not want to loose it.

Some Backup Tips

– Know What To Backup

– Schedule your Backups

– Find a Storage Medium

– Accessibility

– Perform a Restore

Storage Medium

• Off-Site Storage

• External HDD

• Shared Drive on your

Network

• Flash Drive

• CD/DVD/Tape Drive

A list of items which I Backup• 1. Emails (Work & Personal)

• 2. Important Work/Personal Folders

• 3. My Music

• 4. My eBooks

• 5. My AudioBooks

• 6. My Pictures

• 7. My Videos

• 8. My Received Podcasts

• 9. My BookMarks/Favorites

• 10. My Contacts (Address Book)

• 11. My Calendar

• 12. My Purchased/Downloaded Softwares/Device Drivers

• 13. My Scanned Documents

• 14. A Snapshot (PrintScreen) of all the Installed Programs (to identify which programs to install into a new system incase of a computer failure)

If you do not have any data backup,

act immediately!