Backing Up Your Files – Make A Copy Today!
In case you are not very familiar with what the term ‘backup’ actually means, I’m going to give you a very easy explanation of the concept: When you put a sheet of paper on a photocopier and hit copy you have just created a ‘backup’ of your original piece of paper. Now, let’s say you have a picture of your pet as a file on your computer that you don’t want to lose. Make a backup of this file by copying it elsewhere. If the file is small enough you can copy it and others to a floppy disk and put that disk away in storage. Or if your files are bigger and you have two hard disk drives, you can make a copy of the files you wish to backup to the other hard drive.
If you have hundreds of files or even dozens of very large ones, you can ‘burn’ them to a CD if you have a burner on your computer. If you don’t already have a burner, they are very affordable these days. There are dozens of options available to you like tape backup, zip drives, jaz drives, external USB drives and so on…
Where you choose to backup your files depends on what you have for your computer. But the point is that you should definitely make copies of your critical files in case the worse happens and you lose everything. Believe me, it’s happened more than once and you don’t give much thought until it happens to you!
Some typical document types you would want to backup: pictures, music, homework, resumes, business documents, poems, anything you download from the Internet and don’t want to lose, email, favorites, ICQ list, emails, videos, movies…in short, anything that you have created or received from the Internet, or email or a floppy disk should be backed up if it’s something you want to make sure you have in case of computer emergencies!
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