Backing Up

We all know that valuable data must be backed up. It can be lost in an instant.

I know of many instances where customers were working away on their computer and suddenly it froze and crashed.

Or they turned it off one day and the next pushed the button to start work and nothing appeared on the screen.

All data was lost. Some of it irreplaceable.

Fortunately, there is an excellent backup solution which will serve for most users.

Flash drives.

They are small thumb sized devices which plug into the USB port of the computer.

They come in different sizes and are steadily getting larger.

The beauty of flash drives is that unlike zip disks, tapes or even floppies, they don’t require any additional device such as a zip drive or tape drive to be installed in the computer.

You can just plug the flash drive into the USB port and the computer will recognize it as a part of the computer, giving it a drive letter such as “F”.

You can then simply copy your data to the “F” drive, and you are backed up.

If something happens to your data, you can plug your flash drive back into the USB port and restore it to your computer.

Remember, you only back up the data that is important to you: Word and Excel
documents, Quickbooks files, photos, e-mail, etc.

In case of a total crash, your programs and operating system can always be restored from their
original disks.

Back up.

Eventually, you will need it.