Backup Begins - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 11

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David Lawrence: Okay it may be all of a 100 gig because that*s usually what the largest ones are in laptops these days. But the point is by buying an external drive that you can backup to and remove from the laptop when you are not backing up and maybe store elsewhere. At home if you are doing it at work or at work if you are doing it at home. What you are doing is #1 speeding up tremendously the backup process. #2 you are backing up very quickly once you get into the swing of things. And 3 you are backing up absolutely everything that you need so that when that time comes that and it will that at the very worst possible moment your machine fails on you. You will be able to get backup and running very, very quickly. So it is an easy, relatively inexpensive and very fast method of backing up your machine and I can*t recommend it highly enough. We actually have a 10 Quick Steps Guide over at www.10quicksteps.com that goes more deeper into the reasoning behind my scheme, my strategy for backing up and why it*s important to you. You don*t know how important your stuff is to you until you lose it. You really don*t. You can say oh no it*s just some junk I am working on no big deal until you need that one document that could make or break something you had no idea what*s coming down the pipe.

James: Alright.

David Lawrence: So my advice to you is and I do appreciate you tuning into the show and it*s a great question. My advice to you is and to all of you is to really take a hard look at what you consider to be an effective backup strategy. If it is not completely backing up your hard drive and doing so everyday. Now it won*t back up your whole hard drive everyday. It will only backup once you do the initial backup. It will only backup those files that have changed. So you will have the series of snapshots that our first caller Jen was talking about that you can use to build, rebuild that hard drive to whatever condition it was in on the day the backup was done. So if you do a whole month*s worth of backups you will have 30 different snapshots that you can choose from. Now the advantage to that and again this is all covered in 10 Quick Steps to Perfect Backups. It*s a $20 eBook and it*s over at www.10quicksteps.com. I wrote it and I also voiced the audio version of it. So it*s all coming from my perspective with my expertise. I walk you through how to use Retrospect and why I insist that you do things this way. It*s easy. You don*t have to think about it. It*s automatically scheduled and you are protected and that*s what I love to see my listeners in a position to be. Completely protected and not really have to worry so much about it. You know it happens every night, happens every morning whenever you schedule it. So if you do this you are putting yourself in a position where you can easily recover and that really is the joy of backing up. You know if your machine gets infected with a virus, if you have a hard drive failure, if you have some bad data that gets onto your machine or a macro problem occurs where there is a macro virus in a word or an excel document any number of different things can happen. A fire, a flood, an earthquake you know. These are the things we can*t predict and these are the things that make me a nervous dad when it comes to my listeners. I really would like to see you protected. So again and I will put a link to the Maxtor in the notes for this particular show over on the website at

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