Extremidades para sostener sus ficheros del sistema informático y de datos

Fijado el 9 de marzo de 2007 en 2:08 P.M.

¡Cerciorándose de usted sostenga sus datos es uno de eso tipo realmente importante, pero no tan urgente de cosas que oigamos alrededor en libros del esfuerzo personal! ¡Desafortunadamente, puesto que muchos de nosotros tienen toneladas de personal, trabajar-relacionadas, y los datos de negocio sobre nuestras computadoras, es EXTREMADAMENTE importante sostener sus datos!!

¡Aquí está una guía corta que pondré al día más adelante que le ayudará a conseguir comenzado si usted es uno de esa gente que no tiene ninguna idea en cómo ir sobre cosas del forro para arriba!

La primera cosa a entender es que usted puede esencialmente sostener dos tipos de artículos: el sistema operativo y sus archivos asociados O sus datos que generalmente se almacena por separado en otra impulsión o en sus mis documentos o tablero del escritorio. Primero vamos a hablar de sostener sus datos porque eso es generalmente más importante que el OS. ¡Hablaremos del sistema operativo en otro poste!

¡Sin embargo usted sostiene sus datos, se cerciora de que no está en la computadora! Tan tonto como que puede sonar, he visto a mucha gente que ha copiado simplemente sus datos a otras carpetas o sobre otra partición (como D:). ¡Esto no le ayudará, así que no hace! Aquí están los medios que usted desea utilizar:

1. CD's/DVD - Esto es el más fácil y está generalmente muy bien para la mayoría de la gente con computadoras más nuevas. Si usted puede quemarse DVD, entonces a menos que usted tenga toneladas de canciones o de videos, usted debe probablemente poder caber sus datos sobre 1 o 2 discos. Use your favorite burning software and you’re done!

2. External HD’s/Zip Drives - I find this to be the best way to store my data because external hard drives are fairly cheap and you can get a large amount of space for a good price. Simply plug in your USB or Firewire drive and copy the data onto the new drive. What’s even nicer is that with an external drive, you can configure a backup using Windows to start automatically and as long as your drive stays connected (this applies to desktops that are sitting at home), you won’t have to manually do anything!!! And that’s really why people don’t backup their data, it’s usually not because people don’t know, but no one ever gets around to it! So schedule a backup and you’ll never have to worry about it again! I’ll explain step by step how to setup a backup in Windows later.

3. Online file storage - This is quickly becoming the next best place to store your files because it’s requires no extra hardware, it’s conveniently accessible, and it’s pretty cheap! If you don’t want to buy anything or can’t figure out how to connect something to your computer, then try this option! Simply create an account and there will be a button called Upload, click that and choose your files!

http://www.box.net/

This site has 1GB of free storage and it’s only $4.99 a month for 5GB!!! That’s a lot of space!!!

AOL also has an online storage service called X-Drive and they have 5GB of storage for free!! Of course the only thing that is required for online storage is a broadband internet connection otherwise it’ll take forever to upload your data.

http://www.xdrive.com/

Update: Here’s a great post from lifehack.org that lists 90 online storage services you can use to upload your computer’s data.

4. Service specific storage - I call this service specific storage because it refers to one particular set of data being stored in its own way that’s usually better than just dumping it onto some server somewhere where you only see the file names.

For example, I use an external hard drive to store a lot of my personal documents, songs, pictures, etc, but I also use Picasa Web Albums to upload all my photos because there it acts as not only a backup, but also allows me to share photos with others, etc. I wrote another post on how to setup Web Albums and you can read it by going here:

How to setup Google Picasa Web Albums for Newbies

If you have a web site or a blog, you should routinely download all of the files to your local computer as backups. Always be prepared for the worst!

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