If you’ve already suffered a data disaster you probably have “backup religion”.
If not, there’s no time like the present to prevent an inevitable computer nightmare!
I say “inevitable” because the hard disk drive containing your Windows operating system and all your data is guaranteed to fail – sooner or later. It’s a hot, fragile, high precision device with platters spinning at 7,200 RPM. And it was mass manufactured for a mass market, with razor-thin profit margins. That is, unless you have one of the new, and still very expensive, Solid State Drives (SSD), with no moving parts.
I like to assume that some of my readers are total novices, so lets stop and define “backup“:
A “backup” is a disaster recovery copy of your computer’s data, kept on a different medium, in case of corruption or lose of the original data on the original medium.
I hope to convince those of you who are not religiously backing up EVERYTHING on your computer’s hard drive to go ahead and setup an automatic, periodic backup method – with this video tutorial. It’s about setting up and using the best of the small office/home office computer backup software products (according to me and many other professional computer consultants). That is, Acronis True Image backup.
Like other software developers, Acronis updates their products frequently. That means the product version you download and install today may not look exactly like the one I used in the following video. Even if the buttons are in different locations and the screens look a bit different, the concepts and operations remain pretty much the same.
Please note the control on the video player which opens the player to full screen size.
http://www.well-made-webs.com/windows-wisdom/wp-content/video/acronis1.flv
Until next time – “Backup well and often!”
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