Webuser Forums: Backing up advice

No definitive answers, just more questions you need to answer before making your decision:

What you're using at the moment is fine if you just want to back up data, eg pictures, documents etc.

Restoring from an external hard drive is probably easier than CD as you'll get more on it so no swapping over disks, and it's more reliable, CDs aren't a very reliable method of backing up.

If you're just backing up data, if the dreaded happens you'll need the serial numbers and source of program installation, ie download or disk containing the program. You can't backup programs in their own right.

If yowant to go a stage further, you can back up your entire operating system using imaging software, eg Acronis True Image

This backs up your system as it is so in the event of failure you can restore the image and your computer will be exactly as it was before it failed. This way you don't need to reinstall programs, documents etc. The down side is that it also takes an image of any problems you may have, eg viruses etc so they also get imported.

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