Why You Need a Backup Solution
What is the true meaning
of backup? Backup is the term to descibe diskettes, external hard
drives, or disks that can store copies of programs and then
stored elsewhere.
Even with the best of care, any disk can suddenly fail for
reasons as well as hard drives do die. Any personal computer
system can be hit by power overloads, water or misconducts.
Thus, users and big or small companies should always think and
utilize backup solutions. The best protection if you're writing,
designing, researching something is to make two copies of your
data. One copy may be on your hard disk, certainly, but
duplicates should be on tape, disks or removable hard disks
cartridges, recordable CD-ROMs or flash drives.
If the user is only backing up less than 10MB, then one can use
diskettes. If it is more than 10MB then a tape, disks or flash
drives can be more efficient. If you work with files daily, then
you would be most secure if you backed up all your files every
day. If you work with files only occasionally, you need to
determine how often backup is needed. And remember to keep the
backup media in a different place. If your computer system and
your backup disks are in the some structure and the place burns
down, your backup is obviously worthless. So consider moving
them to a different place or location.
BackupChain does o
Almost all large computer systems have scheduled automatic
backup of either full backup or only those files that have
changed since the last backup session.
You should note that some storage media's last longer than
others. Tape backups are often very reliable and can be stored for
years.