Back up Lesson 2 WHERE TO BACK UP

If you followed Lesson 1 you now have a list of what you want to back up. Now we need to discuss where to back it up. I have learned that to get people to make back ups at all it has to be easy for them to do it. That said I am going to suggest that you invest in an external USB drive. You can find a very nice size USB drive for under $100. For most home owners and small businesses an External HD is all the room you need to hold all your pictures, videos, music and documents. There are some external HD's that even come with the back up software built in. I will explain back up software in a future blog post. I will now give you other options if you don't want to spend money on a external HD. My second option for much less cost of the HD is the USB thumb drive. They won't hold as much but many home users will be able to fit all their files on a 4 gig USB thumb drive. You can even buy 2 or 3 if needed and stll not spend the cost of an external HD. A slower and much less expensive way to back up is to use DVD's or CD. Most every computer made today has a CD or DVD drive that can burn images. This will take longer to do but it still works and cost the least. A CD or DVD back up is better than NO BACK UP. Tomorrow I will talk about using software to make your back up job easy. Please leave comments or questions.