Backup
Once again, I find it has been tough to find the time to get to the blog, but I trust that much of the information you've found already has stood you in good stead in protecting yourself, and making your online experience more enjoyable. For any of you that are having difficulties with hijacked home pages and programs that won't install, do not despair, you are not alone! Please contact me if you need special guidance or assistance beyond what has already been dealt with in my brief articles, and in the support pages of the programs I encourage you to use.
On to encouraging news, the vulnerability that I discussed almost a month ago now has been dealt with by Microsoft, and hopefully all your systems are up to date and functioning like clockwork.
Topic of this post is, as noted above, Backup. There are so many things to backup...pictures, songs, emails, links, downloaded programs...the list grows every day. I know many people go for months, maybe even years never backing up their computer system. If you run a home business or use your computer to track your finances or other data, that data that you are storing is by and large more valuable than the box that runs the software in the first place. Especially as you move to all digital pictures... There have been cases where people have died trying to rescue their pictures from a burning house, and most of you can imagine doing something similar. Now imagine that all your photos that you have taken over many years of owning a digital camera are stored on your hard drive, with no other copy. Not even a print. The thing about a hard drive is that it will eventually give out. It's not a question of IF it will fail, it is WHEN it will fail. This is an important distinction! Someday that repository of all your photos will be gone. You must back it up. You can place it on additional hard drives that are used less often, you can burn it onto optical media such as cd's and dvd's. Whatever. Just please understand that you have to do a regular backup, and start doing it. You'll thank me later!
On to encouraging news, the vulnerability that I discussed almost a month ago now has been dealt with by Microsoft, and hopefully all your systems are up to date and functioning like clockwork.
Topic of this post is, as noted above, Backup. There are so many things to backup...pictures, songs, emails, links, downloaded programs...the list grows every day. I know many people go for months, maybe even years never backing up their computer system. If you run a home business or use your computer to track your finances or other data, that data that you are storing is by and large more valuable than the box that runs the software in the first place. Especially as you move to all digital pictures... There have been cases where people have died trying to rescue their pictures from a burning house, and most of you can imagine doing something similar. Now imagine that all your photos that you have taken over many years of owning a digital camera are stored on your hard drive, with no other copy. Not even a print. The thing about a hard drive is that it will eventually give out. It's not a question of IF it will fail, it is WHEN it will fail. This is an important distinction! Someday that repository of all your photos will be gone. You must back it up. You can place it on additional hard drives that are used less often, you can burn it onto optical media such as cd's and dvd's. Whatever. Just please understand that you have to do a regular backup, and start doing it. You'll thank me later!
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