PC Clinic
Backup Your Data
The last thing you want is for your computer to die with all your work on it and to realise you had no backups.
We cannot emphasise enough, please backup your data – if your hard drive fails, we cannot guarantee we'll be able to recover anything.
Backup Your Work
Use the Network File Store to back up Academic work, and also transfer it between different locations.
From a Computer Lab or the Library - it's just the Documents folder.
From your HallNet connected Hall Study Bedroom:
From your Laptop connected to our secure Wireless Network eduroam, you can map the Network File Store - Instructions for Network File Store for Windows are available - Instructions for Network File Store for Mac OS X are available.
Backup your data on to DVDs or on to an external hard drive
Having an external backup means that even if your computer breaks, you won't lose everything. As a guide we'd recommend running a backup once a week, unless you've been doing lots of work on a major assignment, then you might want to consider backing up daily, or even more frequently. Backing up to DVDs can be a quick and easy solution, but you'll want to limit the files, especially if you have lots of music, as you'll need lots of DVDs. Our recommendation is to use an external hard drive.
The Student PC Clinic can help you with the configuration, but it's not too difficult under Windows, and it's really simple under Mac OS X.
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For Windows XP work through the Windows Vista example (they are similar).