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A Guide to PC Backup Opportunities

How to Backup Data More Efficiently

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 11/29/2005 | 09:59 AM ]

Many people carelessly think that if data is stored on a computer’s hard disk drive (HDD) it is to stay their forever. The real life experience shows that HDD breakdowns happen more than often due to failures of the hardware, virus attacks or accidental deleting.

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PC Mechanic web-site has examined different possibilities of data backup and put up a guide. In this article author speaks about advantages and disadvantages of using such backup storages as tape, CD/DVD discs, USB thumb drives, Internet services, various RAID setups of multiple HDDs and external HDDs.

“Backing up your data is vital to an ongoing computer experience. Storage media regularly fail, so you need to plan for it. The best backup options for home users are usually an external hard drive and/or DVDs. Adding in other options like a USB flash drive or an Internet backup service can keep the backup more available no matter where you happen to be at the time of the data failure. You may find that you don’t need software at all, especially if you’re doing a hard drive to hard drive backup. However, it does make life easier, keeping older versions, doing incremental backups, and automating drive spanning. Commercial software is generally much more feature-filled, and there are plenty of good options out there,” writes PC Mechanic.