Saturday, May 9, 2015

Backup Backup And Backup You PC


EXTERNAL BACKUP HARD DRIVE
  One of the most important things you can do is backup your computer. It does not matter whether you are in a business environment or just a home user. I have seen way too many times where a hard drive went bad and the customer never backed up their data. With all the bad pc viruses going around it is essential that your computer has a backup plan in place. Believe me data recovery can become very expensive. If you acquired a virus like the cryptowall or crypto locker virus you could lose everything. Most people keep family pictures, documents, music and other data on their home computer. It kills me when I have to tell them they have lost it all.
  The easiest way to back up a windows 7 computer is to use the backup program in the control panel with an external hard drive. Just make sure to leave the external hard drive connected only when the backup is running. The cryptowall and cryptolocker as well as other viruses can infect the external hard drive. I have that happen to customers recently. Windows 8 and 8.1 don't really have the backup program in them. There is a recent history program that backs up data and you can manually make an image of the system, but you need to remember to do it. I would suggest a backup to the cloud with something like carbonite. Just get the full package so it backs up everything. One safe idea is to have a second standard account to save data, pictures and whatever to. The cryptowall and cryptolocker do not infect or attack standard accounts.
  So just remember to backup your computer today.
 You can search for an external hard drive in the store below the posts.
  Thank You for reading and save that data with a backup system.   

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