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Developing good computing habits
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 shouldn’t 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:
❖ Use Windows to copy files to diskettes.
❖ Connect a storage device to the system and use specialized
software to copy all your data from hard disk to a tape.
❖ 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.