Always
Remember to Back up Your Files
By
Noel Laam
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In the world of computers, data loss can happen
in many unpredictable ways, such as sudden physical failure of
the storage media, unknown virus attacks even with anti-virus
software installed, application software bugs and performance
problems, human errors and many more. While there might be possibilities,
though quite uncertain, for recovering data after a disaster,
it is far easier to restore the files from backup than, say, to
find the data on a crashed hard drive. Nevertheless, based on
past experience, some users blindly place too much trust in technology
while some still believe the luck is always on their side and
harbour the notion that “it will never happen to me”. They sometimes
forget how disastrous their data loss can be until they find out
their valuable data are lost forever. Therefore, the only way
to minimize the risk of suffering such loss is to regularly back
up your files. It can save you a lot of hassle afterwards and
you should realize that, due to various reasons such as privacy
and security, the responsibility to back up your files rests on
you because nobody knows the data better than you do. Therefore,
you should form the habit of regularly backing up your files in
order to keep the possible loss to a minimum.
For guidelines on backing up your computer and important
files, please check under the "Technical Guides" column.