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You may say to yourself now and then that you really should backup your personal files. Times goes by and before you know it you forget to perform backups of your data. At the moment that you realise your system is no longer booting, you have that dreaded feeling that you have no backup! Such a catastrophic scenario is witnessed by users far too often, with the results being lost photos, personal documents and other data. All of this is easy to avoid thanks to the powerful and free programs that we will present in this article.
Why not anticipate lost data?
It is important, essential even, that you regularly backup your personal data under Windows. If you have a system crash or hard drive failure, at least you will be protected from lost data. There are many simple solutions available which will help you avoid losing your office documents, digital photos and audio and video files. These programs will help you backup all of your personal files.
Leave this task to an automatic backup program!
A manual backup consists of copying files and folders to another drive. This may be a USB Flash Drive, optical media (CD/DVD) or external hard drive. It is very easy for users to perform this with a simply copy and paste from the source to the target being all that is required. This action has a major inconvenient though, which is that you have to remember to regularly perform these backups. Ideally, the best solution is to program automatic backups. To do this, the user would create a task that would run dedicated backup software, often running as a background service, which will be started at a precise moment (once a day, once a week, a few times per day, etc).
When Windows 7’s internal program isn’t enough…
To backup your data you can always use the tool integrated into Windows 7 (Control Panel, System and Security, Backup computer, configure backup). This will allow you to create backups to all kinds of drives, internal or external, except of course to your system partition, while the task can even be scheduled. It is very simple for users to access. If you want a tool that comes with a lot more options that allows for full, incremental and differential backups to local drives of network locations, to or from an FTP server, with compression, encryption, extension exclusion and detailed logs, than we suggest you take a look at the following programs.
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