March 16, 2008.

Gene Barlow - User Group Relations.

Perfect Backup Approach

Making regular backups of your computer's hard drive is the most important thing you should do to protect and maintain your omputer. Without a good backup in place, you will "loose" your important data files and your computer will not run properly after a hard drive failure. With a good backup, you can be back up and running again in minutes with all of your important files in place after your hard drive fails. Backup technology has improved significantly in the past few years, so that it is much easier to do backups today than a couple of years ago. Using the latest technology will give you the best backups and be the easiest to do.

Our presentation this month covers the best backup approach to use to do your backups. You will find out what is the best ardware media to use to save your backups on. Then you will see the best backup software available today to do backups and what backup approach works best using that software. You will also learn how often you need to do backups and how to automate your backups so that you don't have to think about them.

Next, you will see how easy it is to recover one or more files from your backup media and how to get them back to your main hard drive. You will also learn the steps to restore your entire hard drive in case your main hard drive crashes. A backup is no good if you can't easily restore your lost files and hard drive. Knowing how to properly restore a backup is very important to understand.

Finally, the presenter will explore with you a couple of the more advanced backup considerations. One approach shows you how to set up a separate data partition in which to store your personal data files. He will also discuss the advantages of having local and remote backups to protect your system in all situations. Understanding these more advanced backup considerations will make sure your backups are the best possible for your needs.

Our presenter is Gene Barlow. He is a very knowledgeable individual on the many backup approaches available to PC users today and can tell you which way is best for you. He is an excellent and easy to understand speaker and can reach all levels of users - novice through advanced users. You will find him an interesting and entertaining speaker as well.

You won't want to miss this important presentation to your group on the Perfect Backup Approach.

June 2007

Oz Rugless, author of
101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications, available from Amazon.com.
Spoke at the Central Florida Computer Society’s June meeting
Left - Oz Rugless and his wife Erlinda

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