{"id":353,"date":"2015-12-05T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-12-05T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T17:16:00","slug":"353-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/353-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Up Your Computer Files To Avoid Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s surprising how often customers don\u2019t have their important computer files backed up. I\u2019ve seen countless people lose all of their important documents, pictures, and music for good because they never bothered to make a back up.<\/p>\n

Hard drives fail a lot more often than people realize, and though there are online companies that you can send a failed hard drive to so they can retrieve your data, it\u2019s extremely expensive and they can\u2019t always get all of the data back even then.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of ways to back up your computer files. A simple way is to purchase an external hard drive and transfer copies of your data onto it.\u00a0 These drives are huge and hold 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and even more.\u00a0 Then every so often, you add your new files to the drive.\u00a0 The only downside to this method is that you have to try to remember to add your new files manually every so often.<\/p>\n

The other way to back up your computer data is to sign up with one of the online data back up companies. Carbonite is one such company but there are several of them. For a few dollars a month, these companies will back up and store all of your data on their servers. The advantage of using the online method is that you don\u2019t have to remember to back up new data.\u00a0 These companies automatically save your files a few times a week.\u00a0 It runs in the background and you don\u2019t have to do anything.<\/p>\n

That way if disaster strikes and your hard drive crashes, you can log into your account and find copies of all your files safely stored there and you can then transfer them to a new computer or back onto your old PC after you get your hard drive replaced.<\/p>\n

Some people use an external hard drive and Carbonite. Redundant backups add an extra layer of protection. \u00a0Data backup is crucial.\u00a0 Don\u2019t put it off. It\u2019s a cheap insurance policy against disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s surprising how often customers don\u2019t have their important computer files backed up. I\u2019ve seen countless people lose all of their important documents, pictures, and music for good because they never bothered to make a back up. Hard drives fail a lot more often than people realize, and though there are online companies that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}