A single USB stick can save your PC - here's how

While USB flash drives have largely fallen out of vogue, they can be handy as a backup when cloud backups or other solutions fail to save Windows.
SlashGear

Is It Safe To Keep Your Important Files On A USB Drive?

For many people, having a USB drive on hand is the most convenient way to store important files. It's as easy as plugging your drive into your computer and dragging the files over, which is why flash ...
How-To Geek on MSN

I use flash drives as a backup, even though everybody tells me not to

Bit rot and cheap NAND—why I actually trust USB thumb drives for my 3-2-1 backups ...
Ars Technica

NTFS or exFAT for a usb backup drive?

I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...