scheduling back ups

soulfood · 04 Jun 2012

hey how often should i schedule a back up? everyday, week, etc thanks

nckfrtg28 · 04 Jun 2012

I do mine every month.

soulfood · 04 Jun 2012

why? why not sooner? what are your reasons?

kado897 · 05 Jun 2012

If you are talking about how often you should Image your OS partition it depends on how often you update your OS and programs. The minimum should be monthly to take account of Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" but more often if you are continually adding programs. Your data should be backed up much more frequently. Weekly as a minimum but preferably daily.

It is a good idea to remove the image from the scheduled backup and to do that manually so that you can use the scheduling function to run a data backup more frequently to suit your needs.

nckfrtg28 · 05 Jun 2012

soulfood said:

why? why not sooner? what are your reasons?

Because the things I do on the computer are not really important. So if I lose some of the data its okay. Plus I have things backup to the cloud and extremal drives.

Gordon Simmons · 05 Jun 2012

It depends on the amount of data you add/change. I have to continuously detect the changes and added files and automatically back it up.

pincushion · 07 Jun 2012

Since my computer is switched off at night and I can't guarantee at what time it might be switched on I back up any changes made daily especially if it is particularly important for me rather than use scheduling, which is possible with the SyncBack software that I use.