A freelance photographer's client photos live on one laptop: a copy in the same folder dies with the laptop, so the backup is kept somewhere separate, an external drive kept elsewhere and a cloud backup, with an automatic copy going one way and a tested restore coming back; fire, theft or ransomware can hit the original but cannot reach the separate copy; and a good backup is more than one copy, somewhere separate, made automatically, tested by restoring and not in the same folder.

CY-BEGINNER-097Beginner · Disaster Recovery

The Safety Copy — Backups That Actually Save You

The single most useful thing you can do to survive a data disaster is keep a safety copy of what matters. But a copy in the same place dies with the original, one copy can fail, a manual one gets forgotten, and an untested one may not work. A real backup is kept somewhere separate, made automatically, and tested by actually restoring.

11 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

See a safety copy as the single most useful protection — and back up the things you couldn't bear to lose.
Keep the copy somewhere separate (safe from fire, theft, and ransomware), and keep more than one.
Make backups automatic so they don't depend on your memory, and test them by actually restoring.
See through the traps of 'I'll back it up later' and 'it's backed up, so I'm safe'.

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