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Having a backup plan

When you decide upon an online data backup service for your computer, it’s a good idea to create a total backup plan for your system. Using of the safe and secure online data backup services for your files is great, but it’s also a good idea to have an extra backup drive at your home to double your computer’s backup options, and to provide you with fast access to your backup files.

The Online Data Backup Service Plan

Whichever online data backup service you choose, it most likely comes with downloadable user interface software, or browser-based software that allows you to schedule your backups, access your files and more. Once you’ve set up the online data backup service to your specifications, it will take some time to upload the data you’ve selected to save, depending on the size of your files and your internet connection speed. If your computer is at home, we recommend letting it stay on overnight and back up your files when you’re not using it to take advantage of maximum bandwidth. If you’re online and actively surfing the web, it will slow down the backup. If your computer is at work, check with the IT department or your supervisor to see if you can keep the computer running on nights and weekends to back up your files. If your service provides automatic backups, the software and service will automatically detect new versions of your files and backup only those. Many online data backup services will also save a certain number – or even unlimited – versions of your files in case you need to access an old document or a previous version you may have deleted by accident.

The External Hard Drive Plan

Remember that even though an external hard drive may run the risk of crashing, being ruined in a fire or possibly being stolen, it’s important to have at least two copies of your computer’s data. If you have purchase a dedicated external hard drive, such as an affordable 1 or 2TB USB 2, FireWire or iLink drive, you have several options for backing up your files. The easiest way to backup your files to an external hard drive is to drag and drop the folders containing the documents, images, music and other files you want to preserve from your main drive to the external hard drive. The downside is that if you change files or add new ones, it can become tricky to either drag and drop each file to its respective folder or go through the time-consuming process of dragging and dropping each folder to the drive and copying the newer version over the previously backed up version. A better idea is to take advantage of software that you can set up to automatically back up new files to your external hard drive, similar to the way that online data backup services’ apps work.