Backup HowTo

Google Chrome is quickly becoming everyone's favorite web browser. It's quick, sleek, free, and clean and made by everyone's favorite search engine company. Web browsers keep track of a lot of user data that makes your web experience even better. Data like history, bookmarks, cache, saved passwords are all saved by the web browser to speed up web browsing and to streamline your surfing experience.

Most of the time, when Windows is installed, all of its system files that make up the operating system are dumped onto a single hard drive partition (C: drive by default). This is the easiest way to install Windows.

Every time you install a new application on your Windows computer, the application will most likely make changes to a huge application database called the "Windows Registry". Think of the Windows Registry as a large collection of application and system settings and configurations. When the Windows Registry is in decent health, Windows is happy and runs smoothly.

You are an Amazon customer and have opted to use the free 5 GB of space that Amazon is offering with their Amazon Cloud. You have been on the website backing up your documents, music and pictures.

Then you start to consider that Amazon Cloud is a virtual service meaning with the server goes down you have no access to your backed up items. Or if something were to happen to Amazon and they lose their database information then you will lose everything and Amazon will not be able to restore what you have lost.

Your computer has been acting a little off lately. You notice it is running slower and having a major lag time when you start certain programs. You may start to become concerned about your computer. Is there a crash coming? Are all of your files backed up? If the crash was going to happen shortly are you going to lose all of your precious pictures and important documents?

Many brands for digital cameras suggest that you need to back-up everything that is on your camera to begin with before doing any kind of update. Sometimes unforeseen events could cause you to lose everything.

Face it, today majority of people cannot live without their smartphone. Their phone has their life on it. From contacts to emails, pictures and music, and applications that you spend money on you definitely do not want to lose those. So what is the best way to back-up your Nokia smartphone? Well, Symbian is the main producer of Nokia operating systems so using Symbian will be your best choice.

Being a photographer is a tough business to begin with. When a photographer loses their pictures then they lose their whole business. Lost pictures are lost money and time and that is something a photographer just cannot afford. Here are a few simple backup techniques to keep your photos safe and keep you in business.

Reducing the size of your backups is key to conserving storage space. The smaller your backups are, the more storage space you'll have (flash drive, external hard drive, cloud). If you backup your data to an online storage service (Amazon Cloud), it will behoove you to make your backups as compact as possible, as online storage services usually charge you for the amount of storage space you consume.

Many of us have important emails that we need to keep, or at least would like to keep. Many also have a business email account that holds many important files that are a necessity and you need to make certain you will never loose. That is where backup files come in.