Back Up Question

I get this question often, “what should I do to back up my machine?”

My suggestion is to buy a large external hard drive from Best Buy or online. The My Book series from Western Digital are nice but you can use just about any of them. You can get a pretty reasonable price on one that is at least 500 GB. Then the next step is to automate the process. Most of these large drives come with software and you can use that or Windows and Mac have some capabilities built into the OS.

Make sure when you back up that you get your email folders too (many times they are buried in a different directory than your documents) – when you are done setting things up you shouldn’t have to revisit very often. Once the value of your data increases to a certain point you may want to consider rotating with a 2nd hard drive that is located off site. (heaven forbid there is a fire)