Fair Backup

It has been long been said that storing your backup somewhere else is the way to keep your backups if your house burns, gets robbed or you have forgotten your backups in your car (which was stolen) or your laptop gets a new owner unvoluntarily. So do you store the backups offsite (as your DVDs, external USB drives) or backup to some remote FTP server?

Flash and external USB hard disk drives are one of the most popular when backing up fairly large amounts of data, and for a reason. But when do you need to backup to a flash USB drive or to an external hard disk drive?

Clearly, the technology process doesn’t stand. It moves and we get new backup media from time to time, be it DVD, WebDAV or Flash USB drives.

What is left to the older backup media, such as CD? Can it be used still in our backups or not? Let’s investigate.

Though it may not naturally occur to one that a compact flash card and backup can be related notions, one can either backup the contents of his compact flash card to his laptop or use a compact flash card as a backup medium. Read on to find out how to do that.

Backup using your flash USB drive to achieve both convenience and security at a time.

Why backup to flash USB drive?

As flash USB drives are very convenient to use, you can use them to backup your data files (usually small in size) to move files between computers and secure them. You can use a large USB flash drive as a backup medium for several computers too.

Backup to an external HDD (hard disk drive) easily, securely and efficiently.

Why external HDD?

Backing up to an external hard disk drive has a number of benefits:

Backup via LAN (local area network) to run a quick backup of your files.

Why backup via LAN?

Backing up to another local computer has a number of advantages:

Backup to an FTP server to be able to access your files from anywhere.

Why backup to FTP?

If you want to be able to access your files from multiple places, one of the best variants is to backup to a remote FTP server. Backup to FTP can also save your files, should your hard disk crashes, computer burns or your laptop gets stolen.

Backup to DVD: backup your work, home documents, image, photo, MP3 collections for storage, convenience and security.

Why backup to DVD?

Backup to DVD has a number of benefits:

Backup via the WebDAV protocol and get the most from its features.

Why backup using WebDAV?

The advantages of the WebDAV protocol in terms of backup are the following (provided the WebDAV backup software supports them):