Personal Computer
Routine Care Task
Back-up important data to a safe external drive or location
Creating a back-up to the important files on your hard drive helps assures you that you will have a safe copy available of your important information should anything happen to damage or compromise your hard drive.
Priority
Timing: Every month: November (yearly)
NOTE: The tasks and timings shown here for your Personal Computer are based on a single-family home located in Massachusetts with a default set of home care goals and priorities.
If you setup your POLICY-Wizard™ personal home manager for a different location with different home care goals, your recommended home care program can have different tasks and timings for your {home feature}.
How To
Your personal computer's "hard drive" is where information is stored. Backing up the important information from your hard drive can be accomplished in a variety of means: to disks, to a tape drive, to an external hard drive, to a CD writer, etc.
Your choice will depend largely on the size of the data in your hard drive that you want to back up.
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Benefits
The benefits of this task are high. Backing up your computer's hard drive can help prevent you from losing valuable information that is stored there.
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Maintaining Value
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Health & Safety
Costs
The cost of this task is relatively low, depending on the size of your hard drive, and the speed of your computer.
