Samsung MZ-5PA064B User Manual - Page 52

52 Best practices for backing up your data Best practices for backing up Consider using external drives as your backup destination. Using an external drive makes your backup data more portable. Should you need to remove your critical data from a particular location, you can quickly grab an external drive on your way out the door. See "About Offsite Copy" on page 81. Give nicknames to your external drives to help you easily identify them You can assign a nickname to each external drive to help keep track of where your backup data is stored for each computer you back up. Because drive letters can change each time you unplug and plug an external drive into your computer, a nickname ensures that you can always know which drive you are using when you are running Norton Ghost. Using a nickname does not change the volume label of a drive. A nickname simply helps you identify the drive when using Norton Ghost. And the nickname sticks with the drive, so that if you plug the drive into a second computer running another copy of Norton Ghost, the nickname appears. Note: You might also consider placing a sticky label on each drive that matches the nickname that you have assigned. See "Using nicknames for external drives" on page 43. Use Offsite Copy Use Offsite Copy to copy your latest recovery points to either a portable storage device or a remote server. By copying recovery points to a portable hard disk, you can then take a copy of your data with you when you leave the office. See "About Offsite Copy" on page 81. Run back ups on a regular and frequent basis. When you define your back ups, schedule them to run frequently so that you have recovery points that span at least the last two months. See "Editing a backup schedule" on page 97. See "Defining a drive-based backup" on page 60.