What's the best, easiest, cheapest, most effective way to BACK-UP all computer work?

Question

Documents, photographs, everything...

Answer 1

I bought an 80 gig external hard drive and connected it via USB. (on my pc it reads as my "E" drive) I back up everything on that. It's quick and easy and I save a ton of money and time not using DVD or CDs. If I have have something super critical, I do back up to CD too. The external hard drive is especially useful if you have a lot to back up. If you don't have a lot, then I would go with just backing up to CD or DVD, but then make sure you use a the RWs so you can continually add to the disk instead of wasting a 700 meg disk for 50 megs of data and not being able to use it again. Good luck and smart thinking!

Answer 2

There are of course many ways to back-up your valuable work, pictures etc. However, a few of them are either very expensive or very difficult to do.

If you have a CD writer, and a few blank CD's, you can just copy the items directly onto the discs. If you're not sure how to do that, you can use many CD burning programs; some of which you can download free trials. Try looking on www.download.com, or try Nero.

Alternatively, you can buy an external hard-drive. They usually retail from £70, so obviously they are very expensive. However, they are the easiest way to back up your things.

Also, if you want a completely free way to back up your things, try getting some free webspace. Create an account, upload all of your items (Putting them into a zip file would make things easier) and voila!

However, the latter is slightly risky because some websites hosting webspace can delete your account if you haven't accessed it in a while.

Answer 3

as lot of the others say buy a cd or dvd copier (dvd copiers now come down a lot in price and allow for lot more storage per cd). For regular backup I would use rewritable as you can then wipe them off the cd/dvd and re-copy -which saves a bit on the expense

also if you have another harddrive installed in the same computer, backup software such as norton ghost allows you to copy the contents of the current drive over to the other drive or cd/dvd. It also allows you to set up regularly scheduled drive copies as well

Answer 4

Installing a slave drive and copying the master to it. After you have the copy of the drive done, boot to it instead of the master.
Then its a matter of keeping new files you have created organized with proper folder names and storing them in my documents. Burn a copy of the files occasionally or migrate them to the master drive. If the slave quits working for any reason or becomes corrupt, reformat it and copy the master to it! If the slave will not format, purchase a new one and do the same thing! I aint a name dropper but maxtor drives come with software that makes it easy!

Answer 5

Buy an external USB storage and copy everything there once a while. If you want to Archive the file that you will not use anymore get a DVD burner.

Answer 6

1. Buy a CD-R drive (about £15 from ebuyer.com)
2. Buy CD-R discs (very cheap from anywhere)
3. Save work onto discs

Answer 7

Download any backup programm, buy an external har drive, and schedule the back up every day or every hour.
Or, make your own DVDs any time you consider your PC has change enough

Answer 8

depending on how precious your work is.. dvd-ram is by far more efficient i found. in the long run external HD will be cheaper, also how much wprk data you have, if it's small then a cd or a flash stick will suffice! but remember.. you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.. (^_-)y

Answer 9

if you've got a rewriter, right click it ,save to cd

Answer 10

write it all on a cd/dvd