Computer Backup is a user insurance policy against Halloween trick or treats and other disasters. It is the key to user peace of mind regarding the preservation of user financial, personal and business files. Computer Backup may save user the hundreds or thousands of dollars it will take to recreate the lost data and to reinstall programs (applications), the Windows or Macintosh Operating System, Email and the many special program settings. User never really realize how much is lost until user fire up that key program and it does not work the way it used to. Worse user may have lost that key program and its files.Industry statistics tell us that it is not a matter of IF but WHEN user computer hard drive will fail. Therefore, computer backup is critical.Backup of the hard drive is the duplication of all or part everything that is on the user computer to another media like external hard drive, DVD or CD, backup to Zip Disk or backup to another computer over a network.
Why do computer backup? Like the financial files for user business or home, some files are simply irreplaceable. Regular backups ensure user don't lose such files. But most files could be recreated given an unlimited budget for time and effort. Consider just how much time, money, and effort it would take to recover a system whose files were destroyed by mechanical failure, a virus attack, or user error.Also consider how much money user would lose simply because of downtime. A major purpose of back up is to avoid such expenses. This is important to remember, since a strategy that costs too much time or money to implement may be counterproductive and therefore people will not perform computer backup.With today's immense drives, reinstalling a modern operating system is quite a time and labor intensive job, not to mention reinstalling and configuring dozens of applications. Unfortunately, computer users really don't understand just how labor intensive it is to restore a system from scratch without a...