What method is best to backup?
Note, no one backup method works best for all people. But the important thing is that you do backup, and have some location where information is stored at least twice at all times. The methods described below will vary in usefulness depending on the amount of money and time you have to spend on backup and recovery. A clone has the most up front money to spend but by the same token is quickest to recover applications, and documents without having to write down registration codes (most applications will recover their codes easily from a recovered clone, a few may not). Other means of backup work if you don’t have the means to clone, or the money to put up front for a couple external firewire hard drives. Of course if your data just consists of a few CDs of data or less, a CD based backup makes a lot of sense. Just be sure to write down the registration codes regardless, so you don’t have to hunt down the proofs of purchase for the various software to reobtain them.
