Tips to prevent data loss on your home computer!

Data loss is a catastrophic event that most people do not take measures to avoid, until it is too late.

According to Ontrack, the research shows that 80 percent of data loss customers regularly their data, your data unfortunately are not enough when it's time to restore it.

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How many of you absolutely do not suffer from your data? Where ... you do not care if your homework and all missing documents, music or disappeared completely in 60 hoursdigital oblivion. I would not care if the business documents, customer data, leads, financial data and the office went up in flames ... or? It can not be called again - Would you like to lose sleep if the whole family vanished from the collection of images by the presence of a virus?

Data loss is no laughing matter. To avoid loss of data, there are several steps that are taken to ensure important data, but it is not lost in case of hardware failure or other unfortunate events. DataBackup is no longer an option but a necessity. Here's how:

* ALWAYS external supports in place to protect data. This external USB hard drives, memory cards, DVDs, CDs, etc. By including the use of a second form of backup in addition to the hard drive, is a step towards a full backup program. We recommend an external USB hard drive, at least 500 GB or more, if you download large files or the collection of music, images and other large files - more spacebetter. This unit only needs to copy / clone the current data are converted, in a safe place and should be kept away from the computer, in case of fire, flood, etc.

* Remember that only certain files can be saved. Pictures, music, documents, videos, etc. The software can not be guaranteed, but the settings and configuration files, etc. can be saved and imported into a re-installation of a program, so that a user the same settings again, etc. If the information they are interested in obtainingan actual program, so that they can be restored later, it's just the ability to save the EXE file and reinstall the program in case of data loss or reinstallation of the operating system.

* E 'is highly recommended that a separate "partition" the hard drive when creating the installation of an operating system like Windows.

Create a primary partition (C:) for Windows data, a second partition (D:) for the data, and so on.

Using thisConfiguration, you can partition your data intact in the case of C: more and more to boot Windows to be reinstalled on the C: partition and access to your data. The data in this way you can access data to your hard drive or copied and pasted elsewhere.

* When using a mail client like Outlook and files on the server. In Microsoft Outlook and other e-mail client programs, you can e-mail to keep the real server, instead of downloadonly for your customers. In other words, if you do not choose to "keep a copy of the file (s) on the server," is the e-mail to your client software is downloaded is not intended to remain on the server. When it's time to call your e-mail with your browser, e-mails that have been downloaded to your computer no longer visible through the browser. You will be "disappeared". How does this relate back up? Well ... We all important e-mail that we do not want to lose, or you can not lose. If we keepE-mail on the server of our provider, there is always a copy when we need it, lost in the case of e-mails on our computer goes.

* Get a copy of a program called Acronis True Image.

Highly recommended! This program allows you to use a feature called "cloning." Cloning is performed when the software creates an exact "copy" of the hard disk that contains the operating system. In case your hard drive fails or is not available to be due to viruses or other problems, you canGo "cloned" and take the computer as if nothing had happened!

Acronis offers numerous other functions, and there are different types of software that can perform many of the same tasks, but we must avoid more experience with Acronis for backup and data loss. We are not endorsing this company, because they do not receive compensation for our recommendation. Good software though!

* Use more than one backup media.

In addition to an external hard drive (s), CDs, DVDs, cloningHis record, etc., is highly recommended that you use the third type of support for data backup. To better understand, the hard drive contains the operating system that you can boot into Windows, for example.

The second type of support (preferably external hard drive), allows you to copy important data to a backup can be used to escape to a safe place to store on your computer.

This THIRD backup media are used, data from the first and / or second hard drive as a backup toPrecaution in case the first and the second support is not unexpected.

Sad reality: a new customer to clone the primary drive secondary drive on a religious, but has experienced a hardware failure that has damaged your data and begin to both units. Since it did not have a third type of media for his backup, has lost much of its very important information. Luckily he did not lose all their data due to an expensive data recovery tool, but it is an experience that everyone can learnout.

Data loss .... It can happen to you! With these precautions and avoid data loss in the coming years. In calculating the meantime, happy!

Jarvis Edwards

Tips to prevent data loss on your home computer!