For guarantee our safety, today we are going to talk about some fantastic tools that will allow us make automatic backups, in other words, without the need to intervene on our own.
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The importance of backups
Our information is very important, it has already happened to all of us on some occasion that due to a fault or a distraction, we lose files that we cannot easily recover, something that can harm us considerably. For this reason, it is important to make backup copies from time to time, but in the end, we either forget or we space them out too much, so that eventually some mishap occurs and we are not able to recover everything we have lost.
When this happens, the first thing that goes through our head is that we should make backup copies daily, but that implies a lot effort y tiempo, so in a few days it happens again, bringing us back to the hell of losing files all at once.
For that reason today we will talk about the automatic backups, a fantastic way to forget about losing important data. But before continuing, we recommend that you take a look at the article we wrote about how to recover information from a damaged hard drive, since many times we will have at our disposal the possibility of re-accessing the most important files to make a backup copy "to the desperate".
What are automatic backups
There are different systems that allow us organize our backups automatic, being able to choose to perform full copies our equipment or directly determined folders y files.
We can also choose to make backup copies of music, images, videos and other specific concepts of files installed on our computer... in essence, we will have at our disposal the possibility of customize the copies to the maximum.
At the same time, we will also find other interesting options such as making copies directly to a disk. cloud storage, perform secondary disk copies o External to our PC, and even perform file backups that we have stored in our own cloud.
In essence, we will create an action that will repeat automatically regardless of where the information we want to safeguard.
The frequency of backups
But that's not all, since we can also make copies choosing the save frequency, being able to choose to make copies every few days of the data we have selected, choose to make daily copies or even real-time backups, that is, as we change a file, it will automatically also be modified in the Backup, which guarantees that it will be completely updated at all times.
How to perform automatic backups
But you may be wondering, how can I make these automatic copies without purchasing NAS servers or similar? Well, very simple, with the appropriate software.
In my case I have tried two tools that I recommend and they are Nero BackItUp and WD SmartWare, the first being free and the second with a payment of €20 per year, although in the event that we buy a DW disk suitable, it will also be free.
What programs do you use to make automatic backup copies?
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