Data Backup Explained | What is Data Backing up?

Let’s talk about Backups, which no one talks about much these days.

What is a “Back up”?

The word “Backup” may not be a familiar word to you. But The Mobile phone, Laptop and Desktop is very much familiar words to you. I hope I am right. So, in this digital device even though we don’t talk about it much, when it comes to worst-case scenario the word that come to save ourselves is “Backup”. If simply said, having a copy of the files of your device is called a Backup.

Importance of Backing up your Data

The important thing is, when it comes to “Data” whether it’s official or personnel, sometimes we cannot call a price to the Data that we belong. As an example, in your mobile you may have a lot of pictures and videos of your memories of your family, friends and yourself. And also, you may have old projects, old account details and documents in your desktop or laptop which cannot retake again by spending money. You can buy or repair your mobile phone, desktop system or laptop but you cannot do anything about your stacked projects, contacts, documents or photos when they are lost. when it comes to these scenarios the concept “Backup” is important to us.

How to do this “Backup”

When teaching about computers systems, usually the Backup becomes a leading topic. We are not going to talk about deeply about the topic Backup and there is a method called Three Two One also. If simply taken all these methods, the major thing that you need to get into your mind is taking copies of your important data and stack it safely. If we take an example, the android phone is backing up your years of contacts without your knowledge to your google account. When you take a new android device and sign in with your google account all the contacts will download to your phone. This is a process sometimes that happen someone without knowing the concept of “Backup”. If not, you can back up your mobile phone’s data to a desktop Hard Drive or OTG Drive (On the GO Drive) time to time making that, primary backup solution for you. In here if you store these backup drives safely in your home or somewhere else you can easily reach, and you will be able to recover your data when your mobile phone loose or got broken.

OTG Drive for Immediate Data Backups

Proper ways to Back up your Data

And these days majority of people work with their laptop and desktop. People create content and save those in their computer Hard drives. Have you thought how you would feel when you turn on the computer next day morning and computer won’t boot because the Hard Drive failure. And not only that what if, you accidently overwrite your project files or mistakenly delete your files, that would be really frustrating right? Usually Backing up might be a process when your laptop's or desktop’s hard drive fails, the replacement of exact data with previously cloned external HDD which is stored on site with your current system. Maybe it is stored in another HDD tray on desktop system. What if your computer system and on-site valuables got destroyed by natural disaster like fire or flood or got stolen or infected with ransomware? you will be lost your backed up drives also. So, it is safer to store your backed up drives somewhere else by taking away from the system. And today you can use Cloud Services such as Google Drive, Dropbox or alternative cloud services to back up your valuable data. So, if you haven’t had a thought of backing up your data, I extremely recommend that to do it onwards. It is a good habit to get

Reliable Data Backup Methods

use to backing up your content in future. So, in here I didn’t want to give information about theoretical knowledge about the topic “Backup” but to convince you the importance of doing it.

 

Conclusion

We are now in a data driven world and in today, data is important than any other aspect in the world, so you need to keep your data safe. In order to do that you need to clone your data and store it safely to recover if it got lost. Professional’s recommended way is to back up your data in Cloud services because it is the safest way to do it. If the data size is high and hard to afford cloud services, you can choose external Hard drives. End of the day you need your data to be safe.