Many of us have heard of the fire in California, USA where many lost their valuable collection in one wild fire that run across many acres of land. Thinking, all the hardware that you may lost during such circumstances, you will be able to buy back later with a newer version with the money you may get from the insurance company. Others such as photos and documents, once burnt, are gone forever.

Hence it is important to keep all your important documents and photo all in digital copies which can be backed up easily and store offsite.

There many ways to backup your valuable data :-

• By PC Backup System that back up all the data and email in your PC. This is the most straight forward and effective way to backup your data as a copy of the backup is save on an Internet Server that is offsite. The process is automatic and all newly added data will be backup real time. Hence no data will be lost as long as your PC is connected all the time.  If the amount of data to be large, it will cost you up to RM 180.00 for such services.
• The second option is to synchronize your data directory to another drive in another location such as your office. Such synchronization process can be achieved using Folder Share which is free. The only limitation is that you can only synchronize up to 10 folders and a limit of 10,000 files in each folder. Again this process is automatic and you are not likely to loose any data as long as both PCs are online all the time.
• Backup your data regularly to Tape or DVD and keep a copy offsite. This type of process is cost effective but it may not be reliable as it depend how often you will perform such backup.