Released on: March 18, 2008, 12:24 am

Press Release Author: santosh kumar

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: We all know we have to backup regularly, but those backups
files can get huge. Add that to your existing your files and your notebook computer
hard drive seems to have shrunk overnight. No matter what size hard drive you have
on your notebook computer,

Press Release Body: We all know we have to backup regularly, but those backups files
can get huge. Add that to your existing your files and your notebook computer hard
drive seems to have shrunk overnight. No matter what size hard drive you have on
your notebook computer, space is a premium. Besides, it\'s not exactly a good idea to
store your backups on the same hard drive since you can\'t retrieve it -- rather
defeats the purpose of backing up don\'t you think? So what do you do, what are your
options?

Backup to an external hard drive. This is probably the quickest, most cost effective
option. You can often get a removable drive on sale or with rebate for a low price
too. You can get one with hundreds of Gigabytes of space too. They can be easy to
hookup to your notebook computer. However, do remember that they are hard drives and
hard drives can fail. You may find the external backup fails before your notebook
computer does.

Online backup. This is actually a good idea because physical disasters can happen to
your home. And when that happens, you will always have a copy in a place not
affected by the disaster. This is why businesses usually have one backup in the
premises and one (or more) off premises. The good thing about online backup is, it\'s
accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. So if your notebook fails when
you\'re away from home, you can still retrieve your data.

Many of these services are reasonably priced and they provide you with everything
you need to get the backups safely transferred. But because your data will be on
someone else\'s system, choose a reputable company, one who is not only established
but takes customer data confidentiality very seriously.

Network attached storage. This would make more sense if you have several computers.
They allow you to not only backup several computers\' data into one location but also
ability to share or retrieve files from that central area. You can also achieve a
similar effect equipping an older computer with a large hard drive and use it just
for storage or backup.

Backup to CD or DVD. This is considered the safest for long term data integrity.
External drives and network storage can still crash and prone to viruses. CD\'s and
DVD\'s are also inexpensive. But backing up to disks daily is chore as you\'ll find
yourself having to manually pop in the disks. It becomes even more hard work when
you have a lot of files and your backup spans several disks. The other problem with
this method is, backup utilities that come with your operating system cannot backup
to a CD or DVD drive. So you\'ll have to fork out extra cash to buy a third party
backup software that will.

No backup solution is one hundred percent and what you choose of course will depend
on how you work. If your data is really important to you, try not rely on one backup
source. Create two separate sources if you can afford to, just in case.


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