[PF:171976] What To Backup And What Not - Basic Guide

 I receive tons of emails on weekly basis, asking about windows crashing, hanging problems, blue screen errors and hard disk failure related issues. People who ask such questions are worried more about their data than Windows, because in worst cases we can re-install Windows in the PC but what about the Data / Information saved in it? Before such problem hits your PC, let us see where we can backup our data, what options do we have and what information should be backed up?.

Taking backup of your PC Intelligently is not as easy as you think. Most of the people take full backups of their computers (including all drives), which not only consumes unnecessary space on the device (where you are dumping your data) but also confuses you at the time when you need to restore it back on to your PC. However, taking the full backups will give you a piece of mind that you have the backup of everything.

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My Recommendation

You just don't need to backup each and every file/folder available in your computer. There are many useless folders in your computers and are not required to be backed-up. Although External drives are cheap now a days, still it's recommended to backup only important files / folders because it will also help you in the restoring process.

Basic Backup Rule / Concept

Many people don't understand the basic concept of BACKUP. Your Data Is Not Safe If It Doesn't Exist At Two Places. Considering that, there are two things which you should be aware of:

1. Once you take the Backup of your files / folders, it doesn't mean that you should delete your original files from your computer. Many people do this silly thing thinking that now since they have a backup of their data, they can delete the original files from the computer to save the disk space. WHICH IS TOTALLY WRONG

2. The Backup files / folders should not be touched at any cost. After taking the backup, just leave the backup data and don't use it for any purpose. I have seen many people messing with their backup data and later find them in difficult position when they need to restore the original files.

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