A lot depends on how much data you need to back up. I don't like commercial backup services because they copy everything into a compressed backup file, and then use a recover program to uncompress the data. I would rather do my own back up by selecting and copying my important data to an external drive. Very few people have more than 1TB of data, and most have far less than that. I like the pocket sized external drives, but you can also buy a tiny flash drive (thumb drive) that will hold up to 1TB of data. Data storage devices are incredibly inexpensive today. Also, if you have less than 15 GB of data, you can use the Google drive, which is a free service, very user friendly, and you can access the data from any device connected to the internet. I have all of my scanned legal documents, tax returns, etc. on my Google drive, and I haven't even used 1GB of the 15GB of free storage available.
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