If you backup, you are one step away from a disaster. If you backup often, make it several steps. Learn how often to backup and how to make your own backup schedule.
Surely, one can backup to whatever backup medium he wants, but if one does not stick to a backup schedule, most of the efforts, aimed at storing or securing the important information will be spent in vain.
First, we need to figure out what we are backing up, as the backup schedule largely depends on the size of the backup data:
– small amounts of data (important work documents) can be backed up often, hourly, daily and at least weekly
– medium amounts of files (e-mail messages, project documents and work documents) can be backed up daily, weekly or monthly (at least)
– large amounts of data (e-mail messages, project documents, data files, settings files, etc) can be backed up weekly or monthly
– huge amounts of data (all of the above plus images, audios – mp3s and videos – mpegs) can be backed up monthly or yearly
– total backup (a backup of all the data on the computer) can be backed up weekly, monthly or...