How Often Should I Back-up?

The quick easy answer to this question goes something like this: If your computer died this very instant, how nervous would you be about losing any of your work? If the answer is "very nervous," then you don't back up often enough, and you should back up more often until you're never nervous about your computer dying.

Fortunately, with ShadowBack, you don't even need to think about this question. When starting a backup, ShadowBack will ask, "Would you like to turn on Realtime Backup after this backup is done? Realtime Backup can automatically back-up all of the files that change after this backup is done." With this option on, ShadowBack will monitor which files change on your computer, and back them up as they change.

Of course, we at Warm and Fuzzy Logic recommend that users use ShadowBack so that their computers are always up to date with their backups, but regardless which software you choose, make sure that you back-up your computer and do it often. There is nothing quite like the pain of knowing that a project that you slaved over for six weeks is now gone forever, or that your child's treasured term paper for eighth grade English will have to be written all over again.