![]() ![]() As you’ll soon see when you try to back up important Word documents, receipts, invoices and similar, you’ll need a LOT of documents to fill the free storage up. All of these services offer a limited amount of storage for free. Check out Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive. ![]() If you have a small amount to back up (~1GB – 25GB for exampl e), a free, online service is the cheapest, easiest method. Look at the size in the properties of folders and files, or put all the information you want backed up in a single folder, and see how big that is. Once you’ve decided what really needs to be backed-up, try to get an idea of how much data it is. ![]() It’s best to keep it as low-scale as possible. ![]() Backing up takes time, space, and, very often, cash. If you’re in the latter group, we’d recommend having a hard look at the information you think is essential to back up and deciding if it’s really that important. If your answer is “ooh, loads, and it changes all the time”, well, it’s not so good. If the answer is “not much” and “not very often”, you’re in luck. The answer really lies in the amount of data you have and the frequency with which you need to back up. Say your laptop is stolen, like mine was, or a household accident drowns it – like my friend’s was! So, what’s a low-fuss backup expert to do? That’s great, but once you’re backed up, you can’t just leave the backup there. Say it chooses E:, like it did in our tests. It has a handy feature whereby it will scan your computer and let you know where the best place is to back up to. Think about it – you back up with BitReplica. You also need to plan where you’re going to store those backups. However, like I said in the review, simply backing up isn’t enough. If you’re a computer user who realizes the importance of backing up – but not such a nerd that you want to spend a huge amount of time dealing with it – it could definitely be the app for you. I’ve just reviewed Auslogics BitReplica, and I really liked it. ![]()
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