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What is Computer Backup?
Computer backup is storing copies of your files somewhere other than your hard disk. The reason that we make computer backups is to protect against something happening to damage our files or computer so they are no longer usable. If we have backups of our files, then we can restore these files to our computer through our backups.

What is Involved in Computer Backup?

Computer backups can be made in very different formats. The traditional method of backing up computer files was the floppy disk. However, floppy disks are becoming increasingly obsolete. In fact it is becoming almost impossible to get a new computer that includes such a drive.

Floppy disks can only hold 1.4 megabytes of data, and there are formats which can hold much more.

CD-Rs are CD-ROMs

that you can actually write

onto and hold up to 800 megabytes of storage. You can also use CD-RWs (rewritable disks)
which can be written onto more than once.

DVD burners are also becoming increasingly common, and a typical DVD-R can hold up to 4700 megabytes, or 4.7 gigabytes (a whole BOX full of Floppy Disks!)

The last option is to store your data in another location altogether. Upload the files from your home computer to a online file backup service for safe keeping....like Multiply or File Den

Tips::
Set a schedule to backup all of your important files. Say once a month
Make sure are organised and have time, don't try to back up in a rush you may forget to backup something important
Keep your back-ups in a safe place away from environmental hazards, don't let your CD's get wet or leave them in the car or let the dog chew on the CD's and don't stick a Floppy Disk to the fridge with a magnet
In fact try NOT to use Floppy disks at all except for coasters

Even a 4year old can do this..
Get a Burnable CD out of the case a blank one, place it in the CD burner drive, open up your My Documents, grab a hold of the files you want to save with your mouse and drag them into the CD drive and follow the prompt boxes that appear, place the date of back up when it asks you to name the CD.
When it's finished the CD will appear ..the drive drawer will pop out place CD back into case, write on case the date of your back up.
And that is it you are done...till next time


sources:: Computer back up made easy and WikiHow