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Back Ups

What Backing Up Is...

A computer back up is essentially a way of finding your information stored on your computer device and saving it to another type of memory scan. For instance saving your word documents that are stored in your files to a memory stick.

Why It Is Important To Back Up Your Work...

It is important to back up your work because, supposed you were in a situation where you had almost completed your project and when you were seconds away from clicking the save button your computer broke down, you would experience how frustrating loosing your data is. But it is not just one project you have lost it is all your important files, this being from business documents to family data even tax/rent returns- permanently! This is why backing up you work is fairly important because even if you may think "it is not going to happen to my computer" if it does, at least you know that you have a spare memory saver to rely on. There are many different ways to back up your work and to back it on so do not get to hesitant because there is everyway that you will prefer.

What Are The Different Types Of Computer Back Up...

Full Back Up: As the name implies a full back up is a back up on everything on your computer system. Your operating system, your settings, your installed software and all your files are backed up/ copied to another medium. The full back up will take long to process as it depends on the amount of data stored on your computer.

Incremental Back Up: An incremental back up process will back up only files that have changed since the most previous back up has took place. If there has been a lot of change since the recent back up performance then the time taken for all the back up files to complete will take a long time.

Differential Back Up: In contrast to the incremental back up, the differential back up also backs up files that have been changed however, it keeps all the changes since the last full back up too.

Selective Back Up: A the name states, the selective back up is when you select specific files/data/folders on your computer that you want to be backed up.

What You Can Back Your Work Onto...

There are various mediums which are useful for backing up your computer. One medium happens to be a memory stick. Memory sticks are easy to use and can be used in any desktop as they are easy to insert. They are miniature keys that are helpful because you can attach it to your keys or around your neck so it is never out of your site and can never be lost- hopefully. Another medium is known to be a tape, also known as a floppy disk. Floppy disks can hold lots of information but can be slow when using it and may be costly for an average computer user. Apart from that, floppy disks are very useful and helpful.

How You Can Keep Your Back Up Work Secure...

To make sure your back up work is secure, on a regular basis, in your free time and when your settled down and relaxed, you should back up your work every so often so that you know for certain tat if your desktop so happens to beak down, that you have all your files and data saved in a secure place. Not backing up your work is just like not wearing your seatbelt in a vehicle. Dangerous situations occur and/or are prevented which leads to harm and unfortunateness.