In a world where phones have become part and parcel of our lives, it has become quite common to find many of us keeping sensitive information in our phones. It's no longer an exaggeration to say that our phones have become more or less our personal companions. In fact, phones are slowly taking over the roles that have been played by PCs for many years now. This article gives you an in depth view on the importance of baking up data stored in your phone while also giving you an insight on a tool that you can use to back up such sensitive data.
1. Theft
Theft is not a new vocabulary to many of us and we all know the consequences that could arise from this vice. Now imagine if you had some very important data set in your phone then you lose your phone! That could certainly be very disheartening and one can only imagine the amount of resources you would have to incur in a bid to clean up the mess.
2. Hardware Failure
This has got to be the most common form of phone failure among phone users in the world today. Of course, every gadget has got a life cycle and it' can terminate without a signal. If you are an avid phone user who has documents and important contacts stored in your phone, then you should be wary of loosing your data through this form of failure.
3. Malicious Attack
The computer world paradigm shifts have not been without the spread of malicious attacks that have steadily increased over a period of time. Malicious attacks usually take the form of software attacks in and phones are not safe from such attacks. Some attacks can cripple the OS functionalities leaving you with no choice but to install a new OS-meaning that you will end up losing some very important stuff from your phone.
4. Lose of Data By Mistake
Humans are not perfect and it is normal for us to make mistakes-mistakes like deleting a file, contacts etc without intend can happen any time. The problem is data is like currency and such mistakes could end up haunting you. So, this is something you should be looking to avoid through phone back ups.
5. Quick Recovery Times
The beauty with backing up your data is the fact that the recovery times in case of any failure is usually very easy to cope with. On contrary, the hustle of recovering from data loss without a back up is not something anyone with vital information in his or her phone would want to go through.
Now that you appreciate the importance of phone backup, it's high time we take a look at a very efficient method of doing a phone back-up. We are going to use a tool known as Wondershare TunesGo. The Phone Backup tool is very versatile in the sense that it lets you back up data from basically any phone be it and android and iOS phone. Moreover, the tool lets you restore the data from previous backups.
To back up data to your computer, connect your phone then launch the Android Backup tool. On the software main interface, click on Toolbox and find Backup Device to backup phone to PC.
Check on all the data you wish to back up then select Backup. As simple as that your phone data will be transferred to your computer.
To back up your phone data to another phone first you will need to connect the two phones to your computer using USB cables. Launch Wondershare TunesGo and click on Phone to Phone Transfer.
Select target device.
The data to be transferred will appear in between the two phones in the user interface. Just check on the ones you want to back up then click on Transfer. Wait as the files get copied to the other phone.
It is important to a have brief know how of how to restore your saved data back to your phone in future. Wondeshare TunesGo supports to restore from backups made by TunesGo.
To restore your data connect the phone you want to store the data in using the USB ports, Select Restore Devicein the Toolbox menu.
The next step is to select backup files and check then check the files you would like to restore backup to your phone.
With these simple steps you can reduce the risks of going the rough route again. It is always better to prevent than to cure!
Nov 04,2016 15:21 pm / Posted by Christine Smith to Android Backup