Backing Up Your Data
Yeah … I know it’s Sunday but …
Over the last couple of weeks my main desktop computer has begun to act rather strangely. Copying and pasting anything has become a real pain as often whatever I paste gets pasted twice - images are beginning top open from the bottom up instead of the top down and having a couple of Firefox windows open at the same time often leads to the computer locking up.
It’s also nearly 4 years old and has run almost 24/7 from the day it arrived. So now it’s time to for a new motherboard. I’ll keep the same processor but it’s going to go into a smaller box similar to the one I talked about here at Space the Final Frontier.
I’ll also be adding a new hard drive and the old one will become a slave for storage.
So all that means that today I’m backing everything up. Of course, I could just leave it till the computer comes back from the shop and then just transfer everything from the old hard drive to the new one but the files on the old hard drive are valuable to our small business so today is going to be spent backing everything up onto a a stand-alone hard drive that we use for storage.
Accidents can happen and important data can be lost when a small business computer goes in for repair.
