Have you ever lost valuable information that was stored on a computer?
Do you know someone who has?
Taking the time to create an archive or backup of important personal or business data is usually the lowest priority
of the home or small business computer user — until an event such as a hard drive crash, a virus or a fire
makes the only copy in existence suddenly unavailable, and possibly forever lost.
There are many white papers available on the internet addressing a host of archiving products and schemes.
This paper addresses a few very simple methods of archiving data for those with small amounts (10s of GB) of data to archive.