Data Backup Protection and Easy Restoration Solution

When backing up your data it is important to think about where you will backup the data. As you come up with a backup solution, you should think about protecting your data as well as making it easy for you to restore data as quickly as possible. A solution such as this may require you to backup your data on various media, which also means that you will have multiple copies of your data. Having multiple copies of your backed up data is also recommended.

Let's look at two methods of backing up data that you can implement to protect your data as well as ensure you can quickly restore your data.

Backup locally. By this I don't mean to backup your data internally within your computer, but rather externally, but store the hardware locally. Such options for this include an external hard drive (recommended), DVDs or flash drives. I recommend an external hard drive because they can store a huge amount of data compared to the other options, and you can keep it connected to your computer. This means that if you lose your data from your computer in any way, you can quickly restore it from the external hard drive.

Offsite backup. This is option is important in that it separates your local computer from your data. Offsite means your data is stored somewhere else, other than the location of your computer. This will keep your data safe in case an accident occurred at the location of your computer. Offsite options include backing up your data online, backing up your data to DVDs and then storing the DVDs offsite, or doing the same with a flash drive. Backing up your data to an online storage service is probably the easiest way of storing your data offsite. Usually the services can be setup to backup your data automatically, which means you don't have to worry about backing up your data.

While the above to solutions provide the flexibility of both quick restoration and protection of your data, it is always important to make multiple copies of your data.