[Calliope]

I have an external hard drive and I've backed up all of my computer contents. I have a question though. How often should I do the backup? Once a week, twice a week, once a month. What do you do?

[ditzyme]

It depends how important your documents are. Do you work from your computer or is it just leisure? How upset would you be if you lost everything? How often do your documents, photos, music etc change? I do a scheduled backup once a month because the only things I'd miss would be photos and music which don't change that often.

[craftymama]

I back my stuff up once a month but most of my stuff is photographs. I would be careful though if you have stuff you absolutely can't lose make backup discs. I lost an external hard drive and all the stuff on it recently and will never be able to get it back.