Fair Backup

Naturally, if you already decided to backup, you may want to backup what you need. But what really do you need to backup?

It goes without saying that you need to backup files that you update often, such as work documents, Outlook e-mail messages, etc. This will ensure that your work and important information can be recovered in case something happens. Work documents and such should rather be backed up with incremental backup.

You may backup more or less important files, such as favorites, settings, etc once a month to make sure you don’t have to restart collecting them if your hard disk crashes.

Also, you may want to have a second copy of your image, audio MP3 or video collections on an external hard disk drive. Of course, you may want to refresh it once in a month or as soon as about 20-30% of it is renewed/added.

Depending on what you backup, you may want to define the backup schedule. Important files, like work documents, should be backed up often.