Fair Backup

Save your files by means of unattended (without supervision) backups during the Halloween weekend.

Why schedule a backup on Halloween?

In case you are wondering what you get from scheduling a backup on Halloween, here’s the answer: lots - it’s like the “treat or trick” thing. If you do not backup - you may lose some files, if you do not schedule a backup - you will lose some precious time on backups instead of celebrating Halloween.
If you set a backup to run on Friday evening and/or during Saturday (if you work or do something important on your computer), you will not have to spend your time on running a backup manually during the weekend.
Instead, you will spend your free time with your family or however you want during Halloween - scaring people on the streets with your bewitching Halloween costumes.

What to backup during Halloween?

Just as usual when one needs to backup something, the most important files come first. It should be wise to backup the files you last worked on - your work documents, email messages (Outlook or Outlook Express files), etc. If you have not run a backup for some time (e.g. for a week), you can also add other less important files to the backup set.

Which schedule to set on the Halloween holiday?

First of all, you can schedule a backup to run on Friday evening (this one should be highly beneficial). Secondly, if you do some work or modify any files on Saturday, you can schedule a backup to run every 3-4 hours during Saturday to make sure you save your files during holiday preparation - noone knows what can distract you from saving and/or copying a file to a safe place. A backup can also be scheduled on Saturday evening (in case hourly backups were not conducted). Thirdly, if you plan to make any changes to files during the weekend, you’d rather also set the backup schedule to run on Sunday evening too. As seen from the suggested schedules, backups run on the last weekend of October can pretty much secure the most recent versions of all your important files, provided you spend some time adjusting your backup scheduling settings in your backup program.

Where to backup on Halloween?

The backup medium used for the occasion depends on the total size of files to be backedup. If you backup only working documents, which occupy small space, you can backup literally anywhere - from a CD-R (one backup)/CD-RW (any number ofbackups) - to an external hard disk - an FTP server, a flash USB drive, a DVD+-R/+-RW or a WebDAV server being inbetween. An external hard disk seems to be one of the best options, as it allows backing up almost unlimited amounts of data any number of times with high speed and low cost per GB.