Backup encryption is something rarely thought about, as “Whatever can happen to my backups?”. Let’s see if it is really true. Sure, if you backup to your own external hard disk drive, you may not fear, if you keep your drive safe (with you, at home, or in a bank cell). However, even if you keep [...]

Normally, just scheduling your backups is a good thing. But for how long do you need to store your backup files? Of course, everything depends on your backup schedule and on the backup medium you use. If you backup every day, you’d rather backup daily during a week, and then only keep weekly and monthly backups [...]

As you know, backup isn’t something you rush doing every day in the morning. Here is a list of things you may think of not to run your backup. Backup will eat my free time Yes, you only have your own amount of years and you don’t want to spend an hour a week on backing up [...]

Sure, you may think that you don’t need to have a second copy of your files. Noone will steal your computer, external hard disk, a flash drive or there won’t be a fire (or flood) in the house or office. Right. Sure, but there may be other things, such as: - you edit your important file and [...]

Apart from simply using backup programs, there are other methods you can use to backup your data. Disk image backup A hard disk drive image backup method saves the whole partition in a compressed file for you to later restore it, in case you need a backup. This method isn’t as elegant and fast as selecting files [...]

Naturally, if you already decided to backup, you may want to backup what you need. But what really do you need to backup? It goes without saying that you need to backup files that you update often, such as work documents, Outlook e-mail messages, etc. This will ensure that your work and important information can be [...]

It has been long been said that storing your backup somewhere else is the way to keep your backups if your house burns, gets robbed or you have forgotten your backups in your car (which was stolen) or your laptop gets a new owner unvoluntarily. So do you store the backups offsite (as your DVDs, [...]