A much safer bet than antiquated anti-virus programs, is to have an up-to-date backup of your data, documents, photos and music. If your device gets hacked or compromised, simply wipe it and restore from the backup.

The problem is, if you are backing up your data at all, it is probably backing up to an external hard drive (HDD) or thumb-drive.

If your device gets encrypted by Ransomware, so to do all attached devices such as thumb-drives and HDD’s. Plus your backup could be out of date or not even working without you knowing so. And dropping a device or HDD tends to destroy the data stored on them.

How to backup or archive your Windows 10 profile to External Disk Drive

There is a very simple solution.

Cloud backup used to be expensive but now thanks to Microsoft and Apple, is now cheap, reliable and just-works and makes it a simple task to migrate to a new device or access remotely from another location, your iPad/Tablet or Phone.

Current Australian Dollar Backup & Storage Prices

StorageA$ Microsoft OneDrive
Per Year
A$ Apple iCloud
Per Year
5GBFREEFREE
50GB17.88
100GB29.99**
200GB53.88
1,000GB159.00*
2,000GB179.99

*Microsoft 365 Personal (AU$159.00/year) includes Word Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote etc.
** Microsoft 365 Basic

If you use an iPhone and a Windows computer, you may need to have iCloud and OneDrive but if only running Windows and an Android Phone, Onedrive will only be needed.

Do you need to use Word, Excel, Powerpoint or Outlook?
– Then choose Microsoft 365 Personal (or Family)

Do you not need Office or have an older or stand-alone version of Office?
– Then choose Microsoft 365 Basic as a cloud add-on.

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