Backup options

Not sure about solutions, but there are various methods to backing up, depending what you want to backup.

EG:

Back up personal files,like images, documents, music, video? I would simply copy them to some external hard drive, then copy them again to a 2nd external hard drive. One copy is not enough.

Backup the whole hard drive? Use some 3rd party software like Acronis True Image to copy the whole drive. Do not use Windows' own backup options. They have never managed to get it to work well.

Mark

There are really many solutions to backup on the market. Som of them are professional and the others are for common people. I am not an IT geek, but I do use a computer quite often. Well, I use the backup solution
Acronis True Image. It is advantages are the following: cheap price, the ability to backup to the cloud and to other places e.g.external HDD, tapes or whatever you can have, a user-friendly tool. The disdvantages it cannot work with any mobile devices.

Newer Windows versions, such as Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8, are embedded with system restore and computer backup features. These features allow users to restore their computers to a previous state or recover data when systems crash or cyber-attacks make computers inoperable.

To simplify things, the operating systems providing system restore and computer backup functions come along with pre-set features, which auto save settings and data periodically. Thanks to these functions, any user can recover the most recent records whenever needed. But, while most business owners use these functions along with obsolete data backup solutions, such as CDs, DVDs, and external hard drives, to backup their valuable data, more and more professionals are turning to the latest technology

1. Imagining - this is a carbon copy backup of your complete system. It copies system file and personal files. Typically the Disk boot into the application before windows is loaded. You can't do a complete backup image while Windows is running because it locks files and that can't be copied. Two products that do this that aren't free are Symantec's Ghost and Acronis True Image.

2. File backup - This backs up import files such as docs, pictures, video and photos. These run inside windows because they don't back up system files. This type on back is good to do when moving to a new computer. One thing i alway backup (when getting a new pc) is my favorites folder which contains all my IE favorite links.