Fair Backup

As you know, backup isn’t something you rush doing every day in the morning. Here is a list of things you may think of not to run your backup.

Backup will eat my free time

Yes, you only have your own amount of years and you don’t want to spend an hour a week on backing up your data. Setup a backup schedule, then.

I don’t have room to backup

Yes, you need a separate backup medium to backup your data. An external USB hard disk drive should be the best variant: cheap, reliable, fast and portable.

I don’t know what to backup

Well, learn what to backup then.

Backup is too complicated

Sure, if you don’t want to run it. But it is easy, look: first, you select what to backup, then you select the backup medium (where to backup), then you choose the settings, the backup schedule and press the “Finish” button. As easy as that.

Backup will eat my CPU power

Sure, if you run it in your work time. Schedule your backup to run at night and you’ll be fine. You’ll probably need backup software, which can run as a service, though.

It won’t happen to me

Well, you are right. Guy Kawasaki was right, too. Until his hard disk drive died.

Restoring a backup is a pain

With the right software, restoring your backup files is as easy as pressing a button.

Storing files in a backup isn’t safe

Sure, it is not if you don’t encrypt your files and leave your backup medium lying in the open (with a password on its back).

Offsite backup isn’t safe

Well, it might be if you don’t encrypt your files and use DVD or CD to store your backups in a paper box. What you need is a heat-proof (not just fire and water proof) safe and encrypted backup data on a fall-proof hard disk drive. The safe should be secured somewhere as well.

I don’t have valuable data

You mean you have a compute and you don’t have personal, work files to save? How about your bookmarks, party photos or favorite music? If you do, I wonder how well you sleep at night.