Last article I covered the smart ways of backing up data. We learned that we should backup every 4 weeks atleast. And that we should use smart ways of backing up our information such as thumb drives, hard drives(external and internal), or even using free alternatives such as email accounts(gmail comes to mind), or free online file managing accounts. Bad habits users pickup is when their data actually is gone they try to recover it.

This is obviously a no-brainer since you would like to recover as much of the lost data as possible, but to avoid this you can back it up before hand. Running off and trying different methods and paying hundreds if not thousands to try and get as much data recovered as possible is not a smart user.

If you were to backup your data in the first place you would not be worried about this problem. So basically there really is no "bad" way of backing up data. Anyway an individual makes an attempt to backup any sort of information is a good thing. Unless obviously they just store it on another computer as that can obviously crash or lose data just as easily. And yes, even Macs.

So remember, we have CD's/DVD's, HDD's(hard drives), thumb/usb drives, large email accounts, free online file manager accounts, and perhaps the built in windows option to backup data.

However, those are all great ways to backup data,  I would rather recommend hardware rather than online accounts. Because anything can happen to an account somewhere online, a glitch, a flaw of some sort. Atleast if your information is stored on hard copy there isn't much that can happen to it other than perhaps an unfortunate event or natural disaster that would destroy it. I hope some of you have learned something new from the article, I plan to write more about security related topics in the future.