Your data files cannot be adequately protected using the full system backup approach we just discussed. These files change much too frequently to be backed up monthly or quarterly. Data files need to be backed up at least daily if not more frequently.
Included with our Drive Image product is a utility called DataKeeper that is designed to backup your important data files. One of the best features of DataKeeper is that you can set it to monitor your important data files on your hard drive. If you have collected all of your data files into one data partition, then you can simply ask DataKeeper to watch over your entire data partition. As soon as any file changes in the data partition, a condensed backup copy of that file will be automatically saved to your other hard drive’s backup partition. Using this approach, you will always have a current backup of all of your important data files without having to remember to do this important task.
To further protect your important data files, you should create a CD of the data backup folder each month and store it away from your computer.