Backup Programs – How to Keep your data Safe

If you are web surfer and visiting different sites which are not safe and experimenting different tricks on you computer like me then you computer data is not safe at all. There are chances of virus or Trojan attack and might be your hard disk get crash.

One of the best ways of keeping your data secure and safe from Trojans and Malwares is installing good Anti-virus. But what to do if your computer is affected and your free antivirus is not able to remove it, then only one option lefts i.e. formatting your hard disk.

Before formatting you should take complete backup of you hard disk.  In this post you’ll find some of the most significant ways taking complete Backup of your PC. For your convenience, I’ll split this post into 2 parts.

• Automatic Ways to Back Up PC
• Manual Way to Back Up PC

Automatic Ways to Backup PC

You can use Freeware backup software to automatically take back up of your computer without the need to worry about the manual ways of doing it. These Backup Programs takes the backup of Files or any Drive or whole Computer and restore it back to its original place. Here are some of the best Backup software reviews that Tech-n-Tricks recommend.

• Norton Ghost
• Genie-soft
• Backup4all
• O&O DiskImage

Using Auto Back up software is the easiest way to back up your PC. This is because; Backup software will automatically takes Backup and create a compressed file and you can store this file in any other Drive or in CD/DVD. No need to wary about manual way of copy and past it to your hard disc. It saves your lots of time.

Manual Way to Backup PC

1. First of all decide of which Drive you want to take back-up and where you want to store Backup File.

2. I recommend that you use separate Portable HDD or CD/DVD.

3. Select Files which you want to take Backup then Right click on it by holding ctrl key and add it to archive. (Use WinRAR or WinZip). It will take some time.

4. Then Copy-Paste this Archive File to any other safe place.

5. That’s it you have done. Now Format your Drive Install OS and Extract all backup Files.

Which is the Best Way to Backup my PC? (Auto Backup or Manual)

The best way to Backup your PC is by using auto backup software such as Norton ghost or any other. This is because, manual way is time consuming process and it may corrupt your some important files or may lose some of your Files. So if you are serious about taking Backup of your PC to make your data safe then you should use a Backup Software.

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