Developing Good Computing Habits - Toshiba S1 User Manual

Developing good computing habits

This section suggests some good habits to develop so you are
prepared if things go wrong.
Save your work frequently.
You can never predict when your computer will lock, forcing
you to close a program and lose unsaved changes. Many
software programs build in an automatic backup, but you
should not rely solely on this feature. Save your work! It only
takes a few moments, and it could save you many hours of
work to recreate files.
On a regular basis, back up the information stored on
your hard disk.
Files held in your network partition will be backed up for
you, but you need to back up any important files that reside
only on the Tecra's hard disk.
Here are a few ways you can do this:
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Use Windows to copy files to diskettes.
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Connect a storage device to the system and use
specialized software to copy all your data from hard disk
to a tape.
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Connect the system to a LAN and copy files to some
other location on the network.
Some people use a combination of these methods, backing up
all files to tape weekly and copying critical files to diskette on
a daily basis.
If you've added software to your system, you should back up
the software as well as the data. If something goes wrong that
requires you to format your hard disk and start again,
reloading all your software and data from a backup will save
time.
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