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Stand-alone systems such as, home and mobile users’ machines are prone to data loss too and hence, their owners should take advantage of the inbuilt tools that are available with their respective systems. If users are not so confident and happy with these tools then they should go for a third-party backup solution. There are various cheap but reliable solutions out there!

Mobile users – Today’s laptops are all equipped with a DVD burner and the most basic means of data backups would be using writable DVDs as the destination location. Additionally, a small factor external USB hard drive would be a step forward towards a superior backup job. That is, you can set full and incremental backup jobs since external USB drives have larger capacities than DVD media! Given that mobile users quite often connect to wireless networks, they might attempt a remote online backup service. However, due to bandwidth limitations over most wireless networks this solution would not be possible. On the other hand, one time or another mobile users dock their machines at home or at their offices where they can synchronize their backups to a remote storage location for additional safety.

Home users – the first line of backup devices should be removable media such as, DVD disks and external USB drives while, if the bandwidth is sufficient they should participate in remote online backups. A good practice is to enable automatic backups on regular basis and store any external drives away from the computer while not in use. This will protect your drive from damages caused by electrical surges and lightning induced voltages that normally pass through from the computer systems to all attached peripherals. In this case, it is safer to use write-once media such as CD/DVD media.

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