What is a backup?
copyright © Bob Culbertson 2006



A backup is a method of saving important information. It is putting your important information in a safe place.

When you backup your information put it in a safe place outside of your computer. It does not do you any good to backup just to your hard drive.

What to backup?

• Your program information




• Referral links, user IDs, passwords


• Files for your website


• Domain information


• Images, banners, photos





• Articles you have written


• Banking information


• Important emails

Backup should be as important as keeping your computer up to date with windows updates. It should be as important as checking for spyware. It should be as important as checking for a virus.

It is good practice to make more than one copy of your backup files. Get them out of the house in case something catastrophic happens. You do need one copy for yourself, give a copy to someone you trust, put a copy in a safe deposit box.

Where and how do you do a backup of your important files and data? Backups can be saved by several means such as a backup server, your hard drive (not a good storage place because if your computer crashes you loose your backup files).

Your computer has a floppy (A drive) and a CD Rom (D drive), the CD drive works well because the CD's have more storage space.

How to backup?

• Open your My Documents folder


• Locate and highlight the files you want to backup


• Put a blank CD in the CDRom drive (D drive)


• Click on copy selected files to CD

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