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Laptop Backup

Increasing numbers of staff are using their laptop disks as the place to store important data. If the disks breaks down, or the laptop is lost or stolen, this data can be lost forever if it is not backed up. If you keep important data on your laptop you need to arrange to perform laptop backups. A number of different options are available to make a laptop backup, e.g. transferring files to another computer (which itself might be backed up), or writing the files to CD/DVD. Some of these solutions are based on an external disk that plugs into the USB port of your laptop. The advantage of such laptop backups is that you do not need to be plugged into the network, and you can backup more data than on a CD/DVD (and the DAMTP network). This disk is the same as that in a desktop pc, it's portable, can be read by other computers yet provides a medium to help safeguard against loose of work should your laptop suffer a fault.

Laptop backup can be an internet backup service ideal for sales professionals and telecommuters. Through its service, backups can be performed either automatically or manually from the laptop. You also have the option of choosing only the files that you feel require the most protection; everything else can be left alone on the computer. That way, in the event of laptop loss or theft, you can simply replace the computer and then download the laptop backup copies of your critical files.

Laptop backup for telecommuters is superior to conventional methods of backup in a number of ways. For one, no longer must you carry with you an external drive, blank media, or other type of storage to hold your backups. Everything can be conveniently stored virtually on the Internet. After all, if loss or theft did occur, the chances of your backups disappearing as well are quite high.

In turn, this means your backups become infinitely more secure. With laptop backup all of your files are stored in a protected and encrypted location. The intuitive laptop backup software can even be configured to run silently in the background and backup your critical files automatically for truly hands-free operation. The process is achieved quickly as well, as laptop backup compresses files for transmission. This makes backing up your files on the road efficient when copying a number of small text documents or large multimedia presentations.