Is all your valuable data backed up?
In episode 3 I discussed taking a software inventory. I had wanted to mention backups in that episode but it went longer than I intended so as promissed, today I’m going to talk about backing up your computer or computers. I’m sure that I don’t have to convince you that backups are important. Everybody knows that hard drives can crash and everyone probably at least knows somebody that has lost data due to a failed hard drive or even a virus infection. And if you’re a “prepper” I really don’t have to explain why backups and redundancy are important.
Listen in to find out:
- The three biggest reasons people don’t backup.
- The three principals of a good backup plan.
- Ways to protect your data before you suffer a hardware failure.
- Multiple options for backup software.
- Free things you can do to protect your data.
- How to have your cake and eat it too with online backups.
Resources / Links
[...] in episode six I discussed backup options for Windows as part of your technology preps. However more and more of [...]
[...] Wiping a hard drive is serious. When done right, the data is completely unrecoverable (by anybody with fewer resources than say a three letter government agency). That’s a good thing since that is the entire point of doing this! Just be 100% sure before you use the tools mentioned in this episode that you are 110% sure that all your important data is backed up before you wipe a drive. Need a backup refresher? Check out Episode 006 – Backup Options for Windows. [...]
Great episode! I really liked your off site backup solution! This is one area of my preps that I need to work on. I have listened to about 3-4 of your podcasts so far and look forward to listening to the rest. Thanks!
Carl
Thanks for the comment!
[...] backups, backups!!! You must use one of the many backup options for Windows or whatever OS you use. Have I mentioned this [...]
Thanks again for great podcasts. My old backup methodology was to use winzip to zip selected directories to an external hard drive. It was too much of a pain, too slow, and as a result, didn’t happen on the regular basis it should have.
Create Synchronicity worked perfect for me. I set it up once, and now when my weekly reminder comes to back up all I do is turn on the external hard drive, run the program, click on each of a half dozen backups in sequence, and bang all the new stuff is copied over. Then once a month, I swap my external hard drives, the one on my computer goes in a fireproof box, and the one in the box gets attached to my computer. Easy and quick.