Got A Laptop With Important Data - Consider An Internet Backup Service by Anthony Long
You may be surprised to learn just how much and how regularly data is lost from laptop computers. I knew of someone who lost three years of PhD work on their laptop. And yet people still do not regularly backup their data. One can only assume the reason for this is that they assume that it will never happen to them, and when it does it is usually too late.
There are many ways in which data can be lost on a laptop. They are, for example more easily stolen than desktop computers. The components are also a lot more delicate because they are smaller and so more likely to break. Since laptops are carried around, they're also often dropped causing damage and possible loss of data. For these reasons, anyone with a laptop who cares about their data should think seriously about backing it up regularly.
Believe it or not, in the US alone down the years, over one million laptops have been stolen. This is the worst thing that can happen if you have important data stored on your laptop because there's no way of recovering it unless the culprit is caught which is usually unlikely. For this reason it is very important to backup your data.
There are many ways in which you can back up your data, such as CDs, DVDs and extra hard drives. However, one of the lesser-known methods which may be ideal for you is to use an Internet backup service. These are services that will allow you to backup your data to a remote server for only a few dollars per month. This means that even if your own belongings are all destroyed b, say, fire or flood or stolen in a burglary your backed up data will still be safe.
The only perceived disadvantage of using an Internet backup service, as if you have a relatively slow connection. If using dial-up then it would be completely out of the question. If using a slower broadband service, you may have to be prepared to wait several hours to upload and download all of your backed up data if you are a heavy user.
Regardless of whether you choose to use an Internet backup service or some other means, the main thing is to make some kind of regular backup to ensure the safety of your data. If disaster strikes and you don't have a recent backup, then you may have to use some kind of data recovery procedure to recover your data.
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