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Backing Up Your PC

 

Backing up your PC is a pain in the place where the sun does not shine. It’s like insurance -- you pay a lot of money and spend a lot of time for something you hope never to use. However, the act of backing up your PC can be reduced to a reasonable time period, i.e., less then 5 minutes for most people, with a little understanding. We will, therefore, shed some light on the following topics:

 

What is Backup?

Backing up your PC is taking out insurance so that you do not have to re-enter and re-install everything you have ever stored in your computer. There are four steps to backing up your PC:

 

  1. Selecting what to back up.
  2. Deciding how often you should back up.
  3. Determining what equipment to use.
  4. Restoring backup data onto your PC