What To Backup
There are as many different answers to this question. As usual it depends on what you need to backup and also how quickly you need to get back to your data. Prior to Windows 7 most user created data was stored in the users “My Documents” directory. How ever many programs would store data in the hidden “application” directory. This would be fine in some cases but many of these programs included email programs life…
Why to Backup
With the increasing amounts of data that people are creating (photos, videos and other documents.) The need for backing up that data has never been greater. On a computer the one component that still has moving parts and is most likely to fail is the hard drive. If you starting taking the mindset that at some point a hard drive will fail, then backup planning will be taken far more seriously. There are two types…