Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- Computer
- External hard drive (at least 100GB, more is always better)
- Several recordable CDs or DVDs
- CD/DVD folder or other media storage
- CD/DVD-safe permanent marker or labels
- An online storage account (See Resources)
Step1
Pick a day of the week to perform your backup activities. Set aside about a half hour to backup your computer.
Step2
Identify the data you want to back up. This may include work documents, photos, music and the like.
Step3
Create a folder on your external storage device or hard drive and label it with the date and "Backup." For example "04152007Backup".
Step4
Copy all the important folders you identified in Step 2 over to this folder on your external hard drive.
Step5
Insert a recordable CD or DVD into your computer's disk drive.
Step6
Using your favorite disk burning program, burn the folders you identified in Step 2 to the CDs or DVDs using the "Create Data Disk" or similar feature of your program.
Step7
Label the CD or DVD with the date and "Backup" using a label or a CD/DVD-safe permanent marker and store in your CD/DVD folder or other media storage.
Step8
Sign up for your choice of online storage sites.
Step9
Back up all the folders you identified in Step 2 to your online storage site.
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Comments
nethopperz said
on 10/23/2007 Nice article Alexa. It's too bad that this is one of those lessons a lot of people learn the hard way.