Do you have any excuse NOT to back up your files?

Hard drive is not built to last for ever! Soon or later, it would fail. When it fails, it may cause us a big fortune to restore the data; or we would never be able to recover all our critical business information, e.g. all billing information, customer records, email… etc.

We can buy a 1 TB portable hard drive for $60 and Windows 7 comes with a FREE Backup and Restore utility and I am going to show you how to use it in this blog step by step. Do you have any exceuse not to backup your files?

• To launch Backup and Restore utility in Windows 7, we click the Start button, then Control Panel, click System and Security, and then click Backup and Restore.
  

• Click Set up backup.

• Set up backup dialogue would be displayed.

• Select the backup location and click Next
  button.

• I let the expert (Windows) to choose what files I need to backup, and click Next
  button.

• Again, I accept Windows’s recommendation and backup Every Sunday at 7:00PM, and then click Save setting and exit.

• We can choose to start the backup now.

Conclusion

Of course, it would be much better to consult your IT guru what your best backup option is. But anything is better than nothing and I just showed you a very simple procedure to back up your data files in Windows 7. So if you haven’t never backup your computer, please buy a portable hard drive at Boxing Day and follow my 7 steps backup procedures. This is my Christmas gift to everyone who has a computer but never back it up.

Andrew Chan is the owner and founder of ALG Inc.

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