Originally posted by MacStripeyhow do you guys make sure your computer harddrive data won't be lost? I mean, do you make any safety back-ups of your harddrives from time to time, and how do you do it? I noticed my main harddrive is beginning to not work properly anymore, and more and more often doesn't start right. I have around 800GB of data on it which I don't want to lose. But burn all of it to dvds? Or should I get a new harddrive and copy all the stuff from old to new hd? what's the most efficient and savest way to safe your data?
There are a number of ways of backing up data. Personally I back up the important stuff such as photos, music and work onto a portable hard drive which is bigger than my laptop hard drive. I also have a back up of the desktop computer. I do it once a week, Sunday, which is when I run virus scans and cleaning utilities etc. Programs etc can just be re-downloaded/installed.
If you don't have a large enough portable hard drive/memory device then you can back up onto a second hard drive if your PC hace one. Or you could use online backup storage (similar to Windows SkyDrive) where you upload all the data to the internet, be wary of slow upload speeds though.
If I was you, buy a portable hard drive (1TB+) and just copy everything to it. Operating systems have back up utilities built in these days butcopy and paste works fine.
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