Backup, Backup, Backup!

Nowadays everything revolves around the PC and internet. You save your documents and precious photos in your PC’s hard drive. Your entire work may depend on some important files sitting in the Hard drive.

I always tell my family and friends to backup their files in their PC. Which files or folders to backup is up to the users discretion.

Every electronic device is prone to failure, however reliable they are. Eventually it will die out of multitude of reasons. It is always good to keep multiple backups of your entire hard drive or just the files you require.

My Method
This is the way I do and has been serving me well.

1. 2 Hard Drives
   1 HDD 3 Partitions: OS / Photos / Docs
   The other 2 Partitions: Photos / Docs
2. External Hard Drive – Backup of Photos and Docs
3. DVR-RW – Backup of all important files, especially photos on 6 monthly basis

I run a weekly Schedule Task to backup the Photo and Docs partitions. I don’t really bother about the OS as I will usually reinstall whenever major issues encountered that I am unable to fix it myself.

Backing up to External Hard Drive and DVD-RW is done manually.

You might be thinking why DVD-RW, it is an outdated technology and the data might not last long. Well as far as I know it is still in use and alive. When Blu-Ray becomes dirt cheap I will move to it.
Data integrity wise, it is still good so far. I change the discs after about 8 to 10 re-writes.

I will publish my procedure to perform scheduled backup in my next post.

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