Way back in the days of DOS, backup was a fairly simple procedure - copy everything on your hard drive: Programs, Data and Operating System. This is still a good strategy. However, for many small businesses in these days of Gigabyte Hard Drives, the time and "trouble" required to do this kind of backup is more than we think we have to spend. So we put it off (just for a day or two) - even though we know it's dangerous (most of the time there is no problem). But we know we're flirting with disaster. 

There are backup alternatives that fall short of the ideal but are simple, quick and adequate enough that we are not nearly as likely to put off doing one of them. Any backup that you do is far superior to one that you don't do.

There are three phases to backing up files on your hard drive: 

Phase I: select the files to copy. 

Phase II: select the medium to which to copy those files. 

Phase III: copy the selected files from your hard drive to the selected medium.

Conclusion

The information presented here is not intended to tell you everything about backups. It only intends to give you the very basic information that you need to know. If you like what you found here, contact us and let us know.