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Back it up!
By Dave Glish
Back it up! World backup day was March 31st . I also copy the contents of my sec-
Have you backed up your computer lately? ond drive to the box. I don’t do an
image since a simple copy makes it
From the site:
easier to sync the drive and the files
www.worldbackupday.com on the Synology box. I also have an
• 30% of people have never backed up. external USB3 drive that I do the
same thing to. I keep this drive in my
• 113 phones are lost or stolen every minute. bank’s safety deposit box and bring it
• 29% of disasters are caused by accident home about every other month to
update. Keeping it offsite means that
• 1 in 10 computers are infected with viruses each I have a copy of my files even if something happens
month. at home. Heaven forbid that the house should burn
What is a backup? down or someone break in and steal all of my com-
puter hardware.
APCUG hosted a Zoom meeting on World backup
day talking about backup strategies. One of the nug-
gets that I learned that day was that my subscription
to Microsoft’s Office 365 gives my up to 6 terabytes
of cloud storage space. Now I’m thinking that I might
create a backup of my files there too. The daunting
thing will be the time it will take to
transfer all of that data to the cloud.
A backup is a second copy of all your important files Right now my data drive has almost
– for example, your family photos, home videos, 1.4tb of files on it. This includes all of
documents and emails. Instead of storing it all in my photos, Word documents and all
one place (like your computer), you keep another lot of clutter. I guess it would be a good idea to de-
copy of everything somewhere safe. clutter that drive before syncing it with the cloud.
On my main computer I have Another thing to consider is seri-
my main “C” drive and a sec- al backups. This means keeping
ond drive “E” that I store most more than just the most recent
of my files on. This keeps my copy of your backup. If you have
“C” drive from getting too an unknown virus and do a
cluttered. It also makes it backup the virus will be copied
easier to back up main files. along with everything else. If you
I use a mixed strategy for my have an earlier backup, hopeful-
backups. I have a Synology NAS ly that one won’t be infected. It is
(network attached storage) box a good idea to run an antivirus
that I use for an onsite backup. I scan before doing a backup.
make an “image” of my main “C” This gives us something to talk about at the next
drive and store it there. meeting.
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