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Designing a Backup Solution

Now that you've identified the broad outlines of your backup needs and reorganized your data, you're ready to put together a backup routine that builds on those requirements. The tools and techniques we describe in this section comprise the building blocks that you can use to satisfy your unique set of requirements. As we note at the end of this section, for most people a combination of these options represents the best backup approach.

Simple Backup Strategies

Are your most important files concentrated in relatively small "islands" of data? If all you need to back up is a relatively small collection of e-mail messages, financial files, letters, and spreadsheets, you might be able to get by with the simplest of all strategies: ...