2007-02-25 15:24:19 · 8 answers · asked by commissioner_gimpy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
This means whether you have made copies of the documents and files that you have been working on into another media or device.
Most of the time, we save the documents and files directly onto the hard drive. However, hard drives can crash and when that happens, all your work may be lost. At the very least, it will take a lot of time to recover the documents and files.
You can save copies of the documents and files into other hard drives, rewritable optical disks or thumb drives. Floppy disks are hardly used nowadays.
2007-02-25 15:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by Steven L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simplest approach to backup is just make another copy of your file(s).
Performing a back-up is exactly that - a backup or extra copy of the file. The reason you do this is because things happen; hard drives fail, people make mistakes, fires, etc. All of these could destroy your file. With a back-up, you won't lose your work.
Now, making a back up on your hard drive will (may) only protect you from accidential deletion. If you hard drive crashes, there goes your backup. So, it's wise to make a backup onto another source, like a CD or jump drive or external drive. You can then also store that backup somewhere away from the computer. This would protect against hard drive failure, fires, accidental deletions, etc.
2007-02-25 23:27:08 · answer #2 · answered by BigRez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Backing up information is simply saving the information in more than one place (usually on separate hard drives, so if one crashes, you haven't lost your info.) All you have to do is save your document, spreadsheet, etc. on a separate hard drive as your regular one. On the other hand, it is also a good idea to save your ENTIRE hard drive somewhere else, or a full computer backup, in case your computer should crash (Trust personal experience on this one, backup your computer before doing any big changes!) In Windows, it is a simple matter of going into the start menu, programs, accessories, and into the system tools folder and selecting "Backup" in the menu. It will give you an option of where to back up your files, and which hard drive to back up. I recommend doing this at least once per month on an external hard drive, more often if your computer is used for saving/editing files regularly (i.e. photo editing, etc.) Hope this helps!
2007-02-25 23:32:03 · answer #3 · answered by Tman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you work on a file and save it to your local computer.
Backing up a file means to save it to a second place that is not on the local system. If you work in a corporate environment, you usually have a network drive available to you that is backed up every night.
If you don't back up your work and your computer crashes....you stand a great possibility to lose everything. Sometimes this means hours or maybe days worth of work you did.........and many more hours or days to recreate your work. For some documents, this may mean never getting it back.
2007-02-25 23:36:58 · answer #4 · answered by Jeffrey F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A backup is when you save your files and settings to something other than your computers hard drive (ex, a CD or Flash drive) You may be asked this when you install a new program so if something goes wrong during the installation your files won't be lost. There are programs that can do this for you one is called Xdrive its a free service offered by AOL. It allows you to store and backup files to the internet.
2007-02-25 23:29:10 · answer #5 · answered by Trevor J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means saving another copy of the file your working on besides from the one you are saving/working.
For example you are working on a Excel workbook with file name:
orgwrkbook.xls
you can have a back-up by saving/copying it in another file name like "orgwrkbook-bak.xls" by using "save as" command or F12 key. Then continue working on the original file.
To insure that the back-up is updated you must resave the file to the backup file.
2007-02-25 23:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by Aladdin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They mean either copying the data to a CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW disk or to something like a USB flash drive. It's the rough equivalent to making copies of important papers in case the originals get lost or damaged.
2007-02-25 23:28:54 · answer #7 · answered by Erick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they mean actually backup all of your work, if it is small buy a flash stick(usb -1Gb)and if it big buy an external Harddrive(80gb)
you can get all this from NewEgg.com
2007-02-25 23:28:44 · answer #8 · answered by stuntmaster84 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋