Best way to back up files and photos?

cacti

What is the best way to back up photos and files on my Vista desktop computer? I am not techie minded!

googler

cacti wrote: »

What is the best way to back up photos and files on my Vista desktop computer? I am not techie minded!

Buy a USB drive of sufficient capacity. Connect drive to PC. Copy files and photos to USB drive.

That's the short version. Ask here if you need/want more detail.

cacti

What would the sufficient capacity be? I don't have loads of files or photos. Thanks.

grumbler

If your photos are in one folder, Right Click the folder >> Properties >> Size on the disk.

For small amount a USB pen drive will suffice.

HUKD: Integral 128GB Courier USB Flash Drive £17.99 Delivered @ mymemory
Smaller capacity will be cheaper (~ proportionally).

googler

cacti wrote: »

What would the sufficient capacity be? I don't have loads of files or photos. Thanks.

Go into the folders where the files and photos you want to back up are located.

If you want to copy a whole folder, right-click on it and click Properties. this will give you a figure, such as 432Mb, 100Kb, something like that.

If you want to copy a number of files within a folder, select them, then right-click again to get size from properties

Add all the sizes up, add an allowance for adding more in the future, and buy a drive bigger than this.

If EVERYTHING you want to copy is on your My Documents folder, just right-click this and read off the size.

Here's how you add up the Kb and Mb to get a Tb....

http://myrepono.com/faq/4

cacti

Thanks. I will do that.

Chrishazle

For all the cost involved, get at least a 1TB external HDD, then you won't run out of storage. Ebuyer do one for about £40, we have one on my wife's laptop, it's USB powered so comes on whenever the laptop is switched on, plus I think there's a backup program within Vista so you can set it up to automatically backup every day, week or whatever suits you.

dipsomaniac

cacti wrote: »

What is the best way to back up photos and files on my Vista desktop computer? I am not techie minded!

if you have photos on your desktop they are already backed up if you still have the originals on your camera/phone

best 'offsite' free photo backup is google photos imho. just install on pc