Backing Up External and Internal Hard Drives

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Anthony1

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Hey,

What is thee BEST way to back up a hard drive. I'm totally clueless as to what one has to do to back up a hard drive, to be honest. If I have a 250 gig external, do I need another 250 gig to back up the first one? Please tell me this isn't the case. I really don't want to have to buy another separate hard drive and waste 250 gigs just to back up the first drives files.

I heard something about imaging - what's that? And is it a method used to back up drives?

Any (and ALL) help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
 
What information on your current hard drive would you not want to lose?

For me it's pictures, MP3 music files, and some game modifications. I have about 6 gigabytes worth of storage space on several USB flash drives and that is enough for me.
 
using an outside company to back up your stuff on there server (but you will have to pay)
 
I heard something about imaging - what's that? And is it a method used to back up drives?
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Imagining is a backup method. A program scans the hard drive and copys it exactly to an image file that you can restore from.
If I have a 250 gig external, do I need another 250 gig to back up the first one?
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If your 250GB drive is full then yes otherwise you could get away with a smaller drive for a while.
 
determine what files you want to backup and then either burn them to DVD or put them on a flash drive. Backing up the whole drive means you will be backing up alot of crap you dont feel like keeping.
 
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