How to Easily Create Two Backups of Computer Files

Posted: August 17, 2015

[caption id="attachment_12414" align="alignright" width="300"] Image from pcworld.com[/caption] Having two backups of computer files may seem excessive, but it can be a life-saver in the event of data loss, or having to do a total hard drive restore. The issue with having two backups is finding a way to do it the right way. Easily create two backups of all of your computer files. Lincoln Spector, writer for PC World, shares how to do two backups of a computer hard drive.

Two backups are better than one--if you do them right

Backing up is all about redundancy. And the more redundant, the better. If some ransomware steals your important files, the last thing you want to discover is that your backup drive is dead. Or that a bug in your backup software won’t let you restore anything (that actually happened to me once, a long time ago; and no, I don’t want to talk about it). So Dien has the right idea—you should back up twice. His mistake is trying to do it with Windows’ built-in backup tool--called Backup and Restore in Windows 7, and File History in Windows 8.1 and 10. You could do it, however, with almost any third-party backup program. For instance, with EASEus Todo Backup (either the free or paid version), all you would have to do is create two separate backup tasks. When you want to run one, plug in the appropriate external hard drive and select the desired task. Read the entire article Two Backups are Better Than One--if You do Them Right on PC World.